The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 75
We must set out for it at the break of day.’
Who acts: We · What happens: set out, break · To what, where: break, day
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | aux |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 break | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 break | det |
| 9 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | must | We | the break of day | for Branch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | day | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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