The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 146
‘But how will you carry them home?’
Who acts: you · What happens: carry · To what, where: trees
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 carry | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 carry | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 carry | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | obj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 carry | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | future | you | trees = tree | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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