The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 30
But as you are in the highest place you shall make a more dignified exit, and follow them through the window!’
Who acts: you, highest place · What happens: be, make, follow · To what, where: highest place, dignified exit, stairs, window
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 (you, highest place), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 place | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 place | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 exit | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 dignified | advmod |
| 14 | dignified | dignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 exit | amod |
| 15 | exit | exit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 follow | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 follow | cc |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 follow | obj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 window | det |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 follow | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | the highest place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | shall | the highest place | a dignified exit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset exit=Product | ||||
| 3 | follow | infinitive | the highest place not said here | stairs = stair | the window | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme through window=Trajectory |
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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