The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 7
I will finish what I am doing and then you can grind as long as you like.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: finish, do, grind, like
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 finish | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 finish | aux |
| 3 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 doing | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 finish | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grind | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 grind | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 grind | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 grind | aux |
| 12 | grind | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 finish | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 grind | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 like | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 long | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finish | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | future | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | grind | can | you | then | long property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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