The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 65
‘Get on my back, for we have still a long way to go.’
Who acts: you, we · What happens: get, have, go · To what, where: back, long way
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Get | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Get | conj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 way | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 way | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | my back | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source | ||||
| 2 | have | present | we | a long way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | we not said here | a long way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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