The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 42
But you must go quickly and carry this little girl to the Snow-queen’s palace, where her playfellow is.
Who acts: you, palace · What happens: go, carry, be · To what, where: little girl, palace
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 (you, palace), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 go | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carry | cc |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 girl | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 13 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 queen | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Snow | punct |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 queen | case |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 where | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 palace | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 playfellow | nmod:poss |
| 21 | playfellow | playfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 where | cop |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | you | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | you not said here | this little girl | the Snow queen's palace | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | the Snow queen's palace not said here | where 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 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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