The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 2
Before this candle, which I shall light, burns to the socket, you must have made me a pair of boots reaching to my knees.
Who acts: candle, boots · What happens: light, burn, make, reach · To what, where: candle, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (candle, boots), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 candle | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 candle | det |
| 3 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burns | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 light | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 light | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 light | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 light | aux |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 candle | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 candle | punct |
| 10 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 socket | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 socket | det |
| 13 | socket | socket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 burns | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | aux |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 burns | parataxis |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pair | det |
| 21 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 boots | case |
| 23 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pair | nmod |
| 24 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 boots | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 knees | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 knees | nmod:poss |
| 27 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 reaching | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 burns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | shall | this candle and light | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | burn | present | this candle and light | to the socket | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before candle=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | must · perfect · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reach | gerund | boots not said here | to my knees | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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