The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 123
Strike it three times with the three napkins and it will part in two.
Who acts: you, fire · What happens: strike, part · To what, where: fire, two
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 (you, fire), 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 | Strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Strike | obj |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Strike | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 napkins | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 napkins | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 napkins | nummod |
| 8 | napkins | napkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Strike | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 part | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 part | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 part | aux |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 napkins | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 two | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 part | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | imperative | you not said here | fire | time | with the three napkins and part | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with napkin=Instrument | ||
| 2 | part | future | fire | two | tree rules |
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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