The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 107
‘And what must I do to set them free, and to find the water of life, and the talking bird, and a branch of the tree of beauty?’
Who acts: I · What happens: do, set, find · To what, where: treasures, water
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 find | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 set | mark |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | obj |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 set | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 water | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bird | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bird | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bird | det |
| 22 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bird | compound |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 water | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 branch | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 branch | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 branch | det |
| 27 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 branch | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 beauty | case |
| 32 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tree | nmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive | I not said here | treasures = treasure | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | |||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the water of life and the talking bird | a branch of the tree of beauty obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
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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