The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 139
‘Yes, I will gladly go with you, only how am I to get down out of the tower?
Who acts: I · What happens: go, get down · To what, where: tower
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 6 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 get | advmod |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | parataxis |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 tower | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tower | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tower | det |
| 21 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | with you; gladly property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | get down | present | I | the tower | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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