The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 96

‘We are going to Court, to woo the Princess!

Who acts: We · What happens: go, woo · To what, where: Court, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Court	case
6	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 woo	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 woo	mark
9	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woo	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	We			Court			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location
2	woo	to-infinitive	We not said here	the Princess					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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