The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 11
When you see her do this, take a scarlet cloak, or if that be lacking to you, buy a few yards of scarlet cloth, and hurry back to the tree before the woodpecker returns with the spring-root in her beak.
Who acts: you, that, woodpecker · What happens: see, take, lack, buy, hurry back, return · To what, where: bird, scarlet cloak, you, few yards, tree
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, woodpecker), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cloak | det |
| 10 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cloak | compound |
| 11 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lacking | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 lacking | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 lacking | mark |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 lacking | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lacking | aux |
| 17 | lacking | lack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 take | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 lacking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 buy | punct |
| 21 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 yards | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 yards | amod |
| 24 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 buy | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 cloth | case |
| 26 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cloth | compound |
| 27 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 yards | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hurry | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hurry | cc |
| 30 | hurry | hurry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 hurry | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 tree | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tree | det |
| 34 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hurry | obl |
| 35 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 38 returns | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 woodpecker | det |
| 37 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 returns | nsubj |
| 38 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 hurry | advcl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 root | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 root | det |
| 41 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 root | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 spring | punct |
| 43 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 returns | obl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 beak | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 beak | nmod:poss |
| 46 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 root | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | imperative · do-support | you not said here | a scarlet cloak | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lack a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · progressive | that | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | buy | infinitive | you not said here | a few yards of scarlet cloth | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yard=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hurry back | infinitive | you not said here | the tree | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination | ||||
| 6 | return | present | the woodpecker | with the spring root in bird's beak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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