The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 120

Quick! throw yourself on the bed and pretend that you are dead.”

Who acts: you · What happens: throw, pretend, be · To what, where: yourself, bed

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. 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	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 throw	advcl
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Quick	punct
3	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 throw	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throw	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pretend	cc
9	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 dead	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 dead	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dead	cop
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pretend	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	yourself	the bed		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme on bed=Destination
2	pretend	present	you not said here				tree rules
3	is	present	you			dead property	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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