The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 99
Then you can carry him away, and eat him at once.”
Who acts: you · What happens: carry away, eat · To what, where: Motikatika
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 carry | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 carry | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eat | cc |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 carry | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 eat | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | can | you | Motikatika | then | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | you 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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