The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 54
To-morrow I have to carry a hay-rick, and leave not a stalk in the meadow, and that is my whole day’s work!’
Who acts: I, that · What happens: have, carry, not leave, be · To what, where: hay rick, stalk, meadow
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 (I, that), 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 | 5 have | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 carry | mark |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rick | det |
| 9 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rick | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hay | punct |
| 11 | rick | rick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 leave | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stalk | det |
| 17 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 meadow | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 meadow | det |
| 20 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 work | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 work | cc |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 day | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 day | cop |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 day | nmod:poss |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 work | compound |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 day | case |
| 29 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | parataxis |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 work | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | to morrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | I not said here | a hay rick | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not leave | infinitive | I not said here | a stalk | the meadow | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stalk=Theme in meadow=Location | |||
| 4 | is | present | that | 's my whole day | 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 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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