The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 65

‘We’ll only go and look at what’s to be seen in the town for about an hour, and then we’ll continue our journey to my father’s kingdom.’

Who acts: We, our · What happens: go, look, see, continue, journey · To what, where: town, journey

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 (We, our), 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	_	5 go	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 look	cc
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seen	obl
10	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	13 seen	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 seen	aux:pass
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 look	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 town	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 hour	case
18	about	about	ADV	_	20 hour	advmod
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 continue	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 continue	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 continue	advmod
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 continue	nsubj
25	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 continue	aux
26	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 journey	nmod:poss
28	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 continue	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	33 kingdom	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kingdom	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 father	case
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 continue	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	We					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	infinitive	We not said here					tree rules
3	see	present · passive	We not said here		the town	hour		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	continue	future	we	our journey		then	to my father's kingdom	tree rules
5	journey		our					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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