The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 90

‘We must dig a ditch, and then you must lie in it and pretend to be dead.’

Who acts: We, you · What happens: dig, lie, pretend, be · To what, where: ditch

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dig	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dig	aux
4	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ditch	det
6	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lie	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lie	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 lie	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lie	aux
12	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dig	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lie	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pretend	cc
16	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lie	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 dead	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 dead	cop
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pretend	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 dig	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	must	We	a ditch				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ditch=Theme
2	lie	must	you		ditch	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
3	pretend	infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	you not said here				dead 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.

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