The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 49
‘To fetch bread for my breakfast.’
What happens: fetch · To what, where: bread
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 fetch | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 fetch | mark |
| 3 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fetch | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 breakfast | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 7 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fetch | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fetch | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | to-infinitive | bread | for my breakfast | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bread=Theme for breakfast=Source |
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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