The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 68
“Make a fire near a tree and hang the kettle from one of the branches.”
Who acts: you · What happens: make, hang · To what, where: fire, tree, kettle
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hang | cc |
| 9 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Make | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kettle | det |
| 11 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hang | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hang | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 branches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branches | det |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a fire | a tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | |||
| 2 | hang in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the kettle | from one of the branches | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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