The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 82
‘Very good; we will lock you into this room, and here you shall stay till you are ready for eating.’
Who acts: we, you · What happens: lock, stay, be, eat · To what, where: you, room
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, 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 | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 lock | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lock | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lock | aux |
| 7 | lock | lock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 good | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lock | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lock | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stay | cc |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 stay | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 stay | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 stay | aux |
| 17 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lock | conj |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 ready | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ready | cop |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stay | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 eating | mark |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 ready | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | future | we | you | this room | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 2 | stay | shall | you | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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