The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 29
Follow me down into the inner cellar, where you have never yet been, for I always keep it locked and carry the key away with me.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: follow down, not have, be, lock, carry away · To what, where: me, inner cellar, key
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Follow | obj |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Follow | compound:prt |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 cellar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cellar | det |
| 6 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cellar | amod |
| 7 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Follow | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 have | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | advcl |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 have | advmod |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 keep | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 keep | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 keep | advmod |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Follow | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Follow | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 carry | cc |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Follow | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 key | det |
| 25 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carry | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 carry | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 carry | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow down | imperative | you not said here | me | the inner cellar | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme into cellar=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not have | present | you | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | participle | I | always, keep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lock | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | carry away | infinitive | you not said here | the key | with me; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
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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