The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 28
I must go home and give your mother a message, but I shall be back soon.’
Who acts: I · What happens: go, give, be · To what, where: message, mother
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). 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 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 message | det |
| 10 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 back | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 back | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 back | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 back | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 back | cop |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 back | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | I | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | I not said here | a message | your mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient message=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | shall | I | back, soon property | tree rules |
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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