The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 33
To-morrow take a knife and a basin and go down to the shore and get into a boat you will find there.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, go down, get, find · To what, where: knife, morrow, boat
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knife | det |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 basin | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 basin | det |
| 9 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knife | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shore | det |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 boat | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 boat | det |
| 20 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | aux |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 boat | acl:relcl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 find | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a knife and a basin | morrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Theme to morrow=Destination | |||
| 2 | go down | infinitive | you not said here | to the shore; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | you not said here | a boat | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination | ||||
| 4 | find | future | you | a boat not said here | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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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