The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 165
‘You will have to make haste if you mean to go with me,’ said the West Wind; and away it went over hill and dale, and moor and morass, and Halvor had enough to do to keep up with it.
Who acts: You, West Wind, haste, Halvor · What happens: have, make, mean, go, say, do · To what, where: haste, moor, hill · 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 (You, West Wind, haste, Halvor), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 mean | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 mean | nsubj |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mean | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Wind | det |
| 19 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Wind | compound |
| 20 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 away | cc |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | parataxis |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 hill | case |
| 27 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dale | cc |
| 29 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hill | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 moor | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 moor | cc |
| 32 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 morass | cc |
| 34 | morass | morass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 moor | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 had | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 had | cc |
| 37 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 39 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 38 had | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 do | mark |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 had | xcomp |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 keep | mark |
| 43 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 do | advcl |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 keep | compound:prt |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 keep | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | You not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 3 | mean a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | with me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the West Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | go | past | haste | moor and morass | hill and dale | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location | ||
| 7 | have | past | Halvor | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | Halvor not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | keep up | to-infinitive | Halvor not said here | with haste | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
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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