The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 162
‘I am just on my way there to dry the clothes for the wedding which is to take place.
Who acts: I, wedding · What happens: be, dry · To what, where: way, clothes
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 (I, wedding), 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 way | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 way | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 way | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 way | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dry | mark |
| 10 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clothes | det |
| 12 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 dry | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 wedding | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wedding | det |
| 15 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clothes | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 take | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wedding | acl:relcl |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | my way; there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dry | to-infinitive | the clothes | for the wedding | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clothes=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the wedding | take property | tree rules |
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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