The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 119
The day after to-morrow the moon is full, and at midnight you must go to the spot and get the stone out of the wall with a pickaxe.
Who acts: day, you · What happens: be, go, get · To what, where: spot, stone, wall
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | cop |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 midnight | case |
| 14 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 full | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 spot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stone | det |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 wall | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wall | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wall | det |
| 28 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 pickaxe | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 pickaxe | det |
| 31 | pickaxe | pickaxe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wall | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the day after morrow | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | must | you | the spot | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | get | infinitive | you not said here | the stone | the wall with a pickaxe | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus |
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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