The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 91
“To-morrow I will send him into the field to pick some beans for me, and you will find him there, and can eat him.”
Who acts: bones, you · What happens: send, pick, find, eat · To what, where: Motikatika, field, beans
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 (bones, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 send | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | aux |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 send | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pick | mark |
| 13 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 send | advcl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 beans | det |
| 15 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pick | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pick | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 find | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 send | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 find | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eat | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 eat | cc |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 eat | aux |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 send | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 eat | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | future | the bones = bone | Motikatika | the field | to morrow | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to morrow=Destination | ||
| 2 | pick in a quote | to-infinitive | the bones = bone not said here | some beans | for the bones = bone | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bean=Theme for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | find in a quote | future | you | Motikatika | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 4 | eat in a quote | can | the bones = bone not said here | Motikatika | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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