The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 74
‘Do not take us there, for that is whence we came, and yonder lies our destruction,’ said one of the fishes.
Who acts: that, we, destruction, one, our · What happens: not take, be, come, lie, say, destroy · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, we, destruction, one), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 take | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whence | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 whence | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 whence | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whence | cop |
| 11 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 take | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 whence | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lies | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lies | cc |
| 16 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 17 lies | advmod |
| 17 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 19 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 said | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fishes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fishes | det |
| 26 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | infinitive · do-support | us | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | whence property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | we | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lie | present | our destruction | yonder property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | one of the fishes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | destroy | our | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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