The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 62
There you must lie till I play on my guitar; then get up and begin to dance.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: lie, play, get up, begin, dance · To what, where: guitar
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 lie | expl |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | aux |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 play | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 play | nsubj |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 guitar | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 guitar | nmod:poss |
| 10 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 play | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 get | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 begin | cc |
| 16 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 dance | mark |
| 18 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 begin | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | must | you | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | present | I | my guitar | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get up | infinitive | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | begin | present | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | dance | to-infinitive | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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