The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 2
“You must go to the White Hare of the Moon, and ask him for a bottle of the elixir of life.
Who acts: You · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: Hare
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. 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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Hare | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hare | det |
| 7 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hare | compound |
| 8 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Moon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Moon | det |
| 11 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hare | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 bottle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bottle | det |
| 18 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 elixir | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 elixir | det |
| 21 | elixir | elixir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bottle | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 elixir | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | must | You | to the White Hare of the Moon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hare=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | Hare | for a bottle of the elixir of life | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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