The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 137
‘Well, whenever we want news of each other we have only to come here and make a slit with our swords in the back.
Who acts: we · What happens: want, have, come, make · To what, where: news, slit, back
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 whenever | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 whenever | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 whenever | advcl:relcl |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 want | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 news | nmod |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 whenever | parataxis |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | xcomp |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 slit | det |
| 20 | slit | slit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 swords | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 swords | nmod:poss |
| 23 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 make | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 back | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 back | det |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whenever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | we | news of each | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot news=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | we not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | we not said here | a slit | the back | with our swords | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slit=Product |
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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