The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 80
‘If you want to reach the town to-night you must go alone.
Who acts: you · What happens: want, reach, go · To what, where: town
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), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 want | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 reach | mark |
| 6 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reach | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 reach | conj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the town | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | must | you | night | alone property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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