The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 59
You must steal out at daybreak to-morrow and bring out the white horse and some good strong ropes.
Who acts: You · What happens: steal out, bring out · To what, where: daybreak, white horse
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 steal | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 steal | aux |
| 3 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 steal | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 daybreak | case |
| 6 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 steal | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 morrow | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 steal | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 steal | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 bring | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horse | amod |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ropes | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 ropes | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ropes | amod |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ropes | amod |
| 20 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 horse | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 steal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal out | must | You | daybreak | to morrow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at daybreak=Location | |||
| 2 | bring out | infinitive | You not said here | the white horse and some good strong ropes | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=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 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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