The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 29
‘Shall we live in the wood, or go back to the village?’
Who acts: we · What happens: live, go back · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. 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 live | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | INTJ | _ | 4 live | discourse |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 go | cc |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 live | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | we | the wood | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | go back | infinitive | we not said here | to the village result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result |
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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