The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 86
‘Now take us to our father,’ said they.
Who acts: boys · What happens: take, say · To what, where: us, father · 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 (boys), 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 | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 take | advmod |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | us | our father | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to father=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | boys = boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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