The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 111

‘I must go and powder my black kettles!’

Who acts: I · What happens: go, powder · To what, where: black kettles

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 powder	cc
6	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kettles	nmod:poss
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kettles	amod
9	kettles	kettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 powder	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	I						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	powder	infinitive	I not said here	my black kettles					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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