The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 2
‘Run a little quicker and you will be able to stop me, and I shall be for ever grateful.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: run, be, stop · To what, where: little quicker, me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 2 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 quicker | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 quicker | amod |
| 5 | quicker | quicker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Run | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 able | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Run | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stop | mark |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 stop | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grateful | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 grateful | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 grateful | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 grateful | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 grateful | cop |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 grateful | case |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 grateful | advmod |
| 21 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Run | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | a little quicker | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quicker=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality i=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | I | ever | grateful property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/30/2/