The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 28
I shall have to go on putting that question, and getting boxes on the ear, till both eyes laugh together.’
Who acts: I, eyes · What happens: have, go, put, get, laugh · To what, where: question, boxes, ear
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eyes), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 putting | mark |
| 7 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 go | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 question | det |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 putting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 getting | cc |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 putting | conj |
| 13 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 getting | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 ear | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ear | det |
| 16 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 getting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 laugh | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 laugh | mark |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 eyes | det |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 laugh | nsubj |
| 21 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 getting | conj |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 laugh | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | gerund | I not said here | that question | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal | ||||
| 4 | get | gerund | I not said here | boxes | the ear | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent box=Theme on ear=Source | |||
| 5 | laugh | present | both eyes | together property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP 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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