The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 60
You will return to your parents, and I must go in search of mine.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: return, go, search · To what, where: search, mine
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, I), 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 return | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | aux |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 parents | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 return | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 return | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 search | case |
| 13 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mine | case |
| 15 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 search | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | future | You | to your parents result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result | ||||
| 2 | go | must | I | search of mine | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 3 | search | mine | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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