English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 6
Here is the door; I will take it on my back, and we will go forth to seek our fortune.”
Who acts: door, I, we · What happens: be, take, go, seek · To what, where: door, back, fortune
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, I, 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 take | parataxis |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seek | mark |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | advcl |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the door | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | future | I | door | my back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | future | we | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | we not said here | our fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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