The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 135

‘Will you take the lamp while I go in front?

Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, go · To what, where: lamp, front

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. 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	_	4 take	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lamp	det
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 go	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	future	you	the lamp					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
2	go	present	I			front			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location

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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