The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 87
I can sit down on the hearth.’
Who acts: I · What happens: sit down · To what, where: hearth
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | aux |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sit | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 hearth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hearth | det |
| 7 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sit | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | can | I | the hearth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hearth=Location |
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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