The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 55
Roll the stone quickly to one side, That we may find a door.’
Who acts: you, That · What happens: roll, find · To what, where: stone, one side, door
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Roll | obj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Roll | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 side | nummod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Roll | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 find | nsubj |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Roll | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Roll | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Roll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | imperative | you not said here | the stone | one side | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stone=Theme to side=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | find | may | That | a door | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |
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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