The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 85

Go and fetch the scrap of the reins; I shall soon know what must be done.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: go, fetch, know, do · To what, where: scrap · 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, I), 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 fetch	cc
3	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 scrap	det
5	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetch	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 reins	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reins	det
8	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scrap	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	parataxis
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 done	obj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 done	aux:pass
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 know	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	infinitive	you not said here	the scrap of the reins		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme
3	know	shall	I		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	must · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

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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