The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 95
“Oh, leave it to me, and do as I tell you, and you will see that in the end it will bring you luck,” answered the fox; and plucking the pears he took them up to the king.
Who acts: fox, you, basket, pears · What happens: leave, do, tell, see, bring, answer · To what, where: basket, fox, you, luck, end, feelings · 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 (fox, you, basket, pears), 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 leave | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 leave | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 tell | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | acl:relcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 bring | mark |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bring | aux |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | advcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 31 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fox | det |
| 33 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 answered | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 plucking | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 plucking | cc |
| 36 | plucking | pluck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 answered | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 pears | det |
| 38 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 took | nsubj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 took | nsubj |
| 40 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 plucking | ccomp |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 took | obj |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 took | compound:prt |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 king | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 king | det |
| 45 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 took | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | infinitive | basket | the fox = fox | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 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 | see in a quote | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | future | basket | luck | you | in the end | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=Theme | ||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | past | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | pluck | gerund | the fox not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | take up | past | the pears | feelings = feeling | the king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to king=Destination |
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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