The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 31
But you must first go into the sitting-room and look in the cupboard.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, look · To what, where: sitting room
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 8 | sitting | sitting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 room | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sitting | punct |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 look | cc |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cupboard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cupboard | det |
| 15 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | you | the sitting room | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | you not said here | in the cupboard | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cupboard=Theme |
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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