The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 23
No, no, stay at home with your mother, and some day, when you are bigger, we will go a little journey together.’
Who acts: you, we · What happens: stay, be, go · To what, where: home, little journey
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 no | punct |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bigger | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 bigger | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bigger | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bigger | cop |
| 19 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 day | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bigger | punct |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 journey | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 journey | amod |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obj |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | home | with your mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | future | we | a little journey | day | together property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location journey=Theme |
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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