The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 15
That will soon be done, but you must be finished before I come home.’
Who acts: I · What happens: do, finish, come · To what, where: That, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 done | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finished | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 finished | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 finished | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 finished | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 finished | aux:pass |
| 11 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 done | conj |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 finished | advcl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future · passive | That | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | finish | must · passive | you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | present | I | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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