The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 36
To-day you must be my guest, and I will show you something of the way in which I live.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, show, live · To what, where: guest, something, you, way
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guest | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 guest | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 guest | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 guest | cop |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 guest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 show | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 show | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 show | aux |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 guest | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 show | iobj |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 show | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 something | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 live | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 live | nsubj |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 guest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | you | my guest | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | future | I | something | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic | |||
| 3 | live | present | I | the way | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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