The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 72
‘Step into this carriage with me, and we will drive back to my father’s palace.’
Who acts: we · What happens: drive back · To what, where: palace
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 (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 Step | punct |
| 2 | Step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 carriage | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 carriage | det |
| 5 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Step | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 carriage | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drive | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drive | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 drive | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 drive | aux |
| 12 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Step | parataxis |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 drive | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 father | case |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drive | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Step | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive back | future | we | my father's palace | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory |
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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