The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 114
We have now the task of making light for the lowest people.
Who acts: We, task · What happens: have, make · To what, where: task, light
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, task), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 have | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 task | det |
| 5 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 making | mark |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 task | acl |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 making | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 11 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 making | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | the task | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | the task not said here | light | for the lowest people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent light=Product for people=Beneficiary |
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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