The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 10
But you had better begin first with the young man, for I am chained and cannot run away.”
Who acts: you · What happens: have, begin, chain, not run away · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | xcomp |
| 5 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 begin | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begin | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chained | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 chained | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 chained | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 chained | aux:pass |
| 15 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 begin | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 run | cc |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 run | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 run | advmod |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 chained | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 run | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begin | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | infinitive | you not said here | with the young man; first property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with man=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | chain | present · passive | I | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not run away | can | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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