The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 124
Then ride into the opening, and when you are in the middle of the opening, throw the three cakes behind your back with your left hand.”
Who acts: you · What happens: ride, be, throw · To what, where: opening, middle, three cakes, back
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 ride | advmod |
| 2 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 opening | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 opening | det |
| 5 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ride | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 middle | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 middle | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 middle | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 middle | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 middle | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ride | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 opening | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 opening | det |
| 16 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 middle | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 throw | punct |
| 18 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ride | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cakes | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 cakes | nummod |
| 21 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 throw | obj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cakes | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hand | amod |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 throw | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ride | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | imperative | you not said here | the opening | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into opening=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | the middle | of the opening | tree rules | |||
| 3 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | the three cakes | your back | with your left hand | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cake=Theme behind back=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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