The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 12
‘And now we have got rid of her, we must consider what we are to do with the old dog.
Who acts: we · What happens: get, consider, be, do
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 consider | vocative |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 got | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 ‘ | conj |
| 7 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 got | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 ‘ | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 consider | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 consider | aux |
| 13 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 do | obj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 what | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 consider | ccomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 dog | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dog | amod |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 consider | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | we | now | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | consider | must | we | ‘ vocative | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | with the old dog | vn act-114-1 «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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