The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 120
‘We must lose no time in escaping,’ she went on, and uncovered a tiny bit of the shining ball, to light them on their way.
Who acts: We, time, cow · What happens: lose, escape, go on, uncover, shine, light · To what, where: tiny bit, rules, way
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, time, cow), 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 lose | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | aux |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 escaping | mark |
| 8 | escaping | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 time | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 12 went | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uncovered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 uncovered | cc |
| 16 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bit | det |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bit | amod |
| 19 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uncovered | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ball | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ball | det |
| 22 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 ball | amod |
| 23 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bit | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 light | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 light | mark |
| 26 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 uncovered | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 light | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 way | nmod:poss |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 light | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | must | We | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | escape | gerund | no time not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go on | past | cow | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | uncover | past | cow not said here | a tiny bit of the shining ball | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | light | to-infinitive | cow not said here | rules = rule | rules's way | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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