The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 136

We go this way so as to meet no one.’

Who acts: We · What happens: go, meet · To what, where: way, one

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 (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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl:unmarked
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 meet	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 meet	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	8 meet	mark
8	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meet	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	We	this way					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	We not said here	no one					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent

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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