The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 81
The hour of my freedom has struck, and I cannot go with you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: strike, not go · To what, where: hour
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hour | det |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 freedom | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hour | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 struck | aux |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 go | advmod |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 struck | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present · perfect · passive | the hour of my freedom | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not go | can | I | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |
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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