The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 164
I must get there, and lean against the stove, if I have to break the window first!’
Who acts: I · What happens: get, lean, have, break · To what, where: stove, window
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 get | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lean | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lean | cc |
| 7 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 stove | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stove | det |
| 10 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lean | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 break | mark |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 break | obj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 break | advmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | must | I | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lean | infinitive | I not said here | the stove | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against stove=Location | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | break | to-infinitive | I not said here | the window | first property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient |
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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