The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 44
“Oh, trust me, and do what I tell you,” said the fox; “I know it will bring you luck.”
Who acts: you, fox, boy, basketful · What happens: trust, do, tell, say, know, bring · To what, where: fox, you, luck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fox, boy, basketful), 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 | _ | 4 trust | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 trust | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 do | cc |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trust | parataxis |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 said | nsubj:outer |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 bring | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 bring | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bring | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 bring | aux |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trust | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 bring | obj |
| 26 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bring | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trust | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the fox = fox | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the fox = fox | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | the boy = boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | future | basketful | luck | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=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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