The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 97
‘We are going to enter the kingdom of the goddess Mittwoch,(2) and the further we ride into it the colder we shall get.
Who acts: We, further · What happens: go, enter, ride, get · To what, where: kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, further), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 enter | mark |
| 6 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kingdom | det |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enter | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 goddess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goddess | det |
| 11 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kingdom | nmod |
| 12 | Mittwoch | Mittwoch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 goddess | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 2 | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 2 | punct |
| 15 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 going | parataxis |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 2 | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ride | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 further | det |
| 19 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ride | nsubj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ride | nsubj |
| 21 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ride | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 colder | det |
| 25 | colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 ride | xcomp |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 get | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 colder | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | We | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | We not said here | the kingdom of the goddess | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kingdom=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ride | present | the further | kingdom | cold property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into it=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | get | shall | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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