The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 50
‘Drive on, can’t you?’
Who acts: you · What happens: not drive · To what, where: you
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 (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 | _ | 2 Drive | punct |
| 2 | Drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 Drive | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ca | punct |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Drive | parataxis |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Drive | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Drive | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drive | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drive | imperative | you not said here | you | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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