The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 97
‘Then what must I do to free them, and to get the water of life, and the talking bird, and the branch of the tree of beauty?’
Who acts: I · What happens: do, get · To what, where: free, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 what | advmod |
| 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 | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 free | mark |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 free | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 water | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bird | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bird | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 21 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bird | compound |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 branch | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 branch | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 branch | det |
| 26 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tree | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 branch | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 beauty | case |
| 31 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tree | nmod |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must | I | free | the talking bird obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | the water of life | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
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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