The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 25
“I will pretend to be dead, and you must change yourself into a man, and take me to the village for sale.
Who acts: thought, you · What happens: pretend, be, change, take · To what, where: yourself, thought, village
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, 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 | _ | 4 pretend | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pretend | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretend | aux |
| 4 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 dead | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pretend | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 change | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 change | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 change | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 change | aux |
| 12 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pretend | conj |
| 13 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 change | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretend | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 village | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 village | det |
| 23 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sale | case |
| 25 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend in a quote | future | thought | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | thought not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change in a quote | must | you | yourself | into a man result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into man=Result | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | thought | the village | for sale | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to village=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.
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