The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 8
I shall take you home, and then perhaps my wife won’t scold me so much.’
Who acts: I, wife · What happens: take, not scold · To what, where: you, me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scold | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 scold | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 perhaps | advmod |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 14 scold | advmod |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scold | nsubj |
| 12 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 scold | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 scold | advmod |
| 14 | scold | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 scold | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 scold | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | shall | I | you | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 2 | not scold | future | my wife | me | perhaps property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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