The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 37
“Go down on the inside now,” said the giant, “and see if you can open the gate to us.”
Who acts: you · What happens: go down, say, see, open · To what, where: inside, giant, gate, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 inside | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inside | det |
| 6 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 giant | det |
| 12 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 open | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 open | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 open | aux |
| 20 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gate | det |
| 22 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 open | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 open | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down in a quote | infinitive | the inside | now | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on inside=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | open a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | the gate | us | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient to we=Recipient |
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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