The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 75
Go and ask where it is to be found, and then mount it and be off with you.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, ask, find, mount, be · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ask | cc |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 found | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 found | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mount | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mount | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 mount | advmod |
| 13 | mount | mount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mount | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 off | cc |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 off | cop |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 13 mount | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 off | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | present · passive | youth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mount | infinitive | youth | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | with you; off property | tree rules |
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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