The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 29
‘Because we’ll drive there together and bring it carefully back between us.’
Who acts: we · What happens: drive, bring · To what, where: pot
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 5 drive | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 drive | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drive | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 drive | aux |
| 5 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 drive | advmod |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 drive | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bring | cc |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 drive | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 back | advmod |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 bring | advmod |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drive | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | future | we | there | together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | we not said here | pot | between us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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