The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 109

‘We want to go down to your parents,’ they said to Halvor, ‘so we will go out and look about us.’

Who acts: We, Heavens · What happens: want, go down, say, go out, look · To what, where: Halvor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Heavens), 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	_	3 want	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 parents	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 parents	nmod:poss
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Halvor	case
15	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Halvor	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 look	cc
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 us	case
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 look	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	We			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go down not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here		to your parents; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past	Heavens = heaven			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go out	future	we	Halvor	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	infinitive	we not said here		about us	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about we=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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