The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 45
You have only got to ride me back to the same river that we went to yesterday, and I will plunge into it and take my proper shape again.
Who acts: You, same river, I · What happens: get, ride back, go, plunge, take · To what, where: me, same river, river, proper shape
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, same river, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ride | mark |
| 6 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ride | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 ride | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 river | amod |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ride | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 went | nsubj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 river | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 yesterday | case |
| 17 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 plunge | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plunge | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 plunge | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 plunge | aux |
| 22 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | parataxis |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 plunge | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 take | cc |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 plunge | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 shape | nmod:poss |
| 28 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 shape | amod |
| 29 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 take | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ride back | to-infinitive | You not said here | me | the same river | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to river=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | go | past | the same river | yesterday | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plunge | future | I | river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | I not said here | my proper shape | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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 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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