The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 94
‘From shelter we shall proceed to demand supper, and from supper money to take us on our way.
Who acts: we · What happens: proceed, demand, take · To what, where: shelter, supper, us, way
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. 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 | _ | 6 proceed | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 shelter | case |
| 3 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proceed | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 proceed | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 proceed | aux |
| 6 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 demand | mark |
| 8 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 proceed | xcomp |
| 9 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 demand | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 money | cc |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 13 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 money | compound |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proceed | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 money | acl |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proceed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | shall | we | shelter | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | to-infinitive | we not said here | supper | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme supper=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | we not said here | us | our way | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme on way=Destination |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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