The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 4

Be quick and spread the sheet over me.”

Who acts: you · What happens: be, spread · To what, where: sheet

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 quick	cop
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 spread	cc
4	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 quick	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheet	det
6	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 spread	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 quick	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					quick property	tree rules
2	spread	past	you not said here	the sheet				over me	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme over i=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/29/4/