The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 68
To-morrow I must build a palace more beautiful than the King’s, and it must be finished before evening.’
Who acts: I · What happens: build, finish · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 build | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 build | aux |
| 6 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 build | obj |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 build | xcomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 beautiful | obl |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 finished | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 finished | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 finished | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 finished | aux:pass |
| 20 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 build | advcl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 evening | case |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 finished | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 build | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | must | I | a palace | to morrow; beautiful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Product | |||
| 2 | finish | must · passive | palace | evening | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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