The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 114
I have a little dog who will begin to howl when Eisenkopf is still seven miles off; so lie on this bed and rest yourself in peace.”
Who acts: I, little dog, Eisenkopf · What happens: have, begin, howl, be, lie, rest · To what, where: little dog, bed, yourself, peace
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little dog, Eisenkopf), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 begin | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 begin | aux |
| 8 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dog | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 howl | mark |
| 10 | howl | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 begin | xcomp |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 off | mark |
| 12 | Eisenkopf | Eisenkopf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 off | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 off | cop |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 off | advmod |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 miles | nummod |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 off | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 10 howl | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 lie | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 lie | advmod |
| 20 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 bed | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 bed | det |
| 23 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lie | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rest | cc |
| 25 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 lie | conj |
| 26 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 rest | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 peace | case |
| 28 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rest | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a little dog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | ||||
| 2 | begin | future | a little dog | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | howl | to-infinitive | a little dog not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Eisenkopf | still | seven miles obl:unmarked; off property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | lie | infinitive | this bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | |||||
| 6 | rest | infinitive | yourself | peace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme in peace=Location |
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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