The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 130
‘Mount on my back, then, and in a quarter of an hour we shall be there.’
Who acts: we · What happens: be · To what, where: hour
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 2 Mount | punct |
| 2 | Mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mount | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 quarter | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 quarter | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 quarter | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 quarter | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 quarter | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 quarter | det |
| 12 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mount | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hour | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hour | det |
| 15 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 quarter | nmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 there | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 there | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 there | cop |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 hour | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mount | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mount | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | we | a hour not said here | there property | tree rules |
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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