The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 44
I will carry the key, my eldest sister can take the light, while the other brings the bottle.”
Who acts: I, eldest sister, other · What happens: carry, take, bring · To what, where: key, light, bottle
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eldest sister, other), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | aux |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 key | det |
| 5 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carry | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brings | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 brings | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brings | nsubj |
| 18 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bottle | det |
| 20 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brings | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | future | I | the key | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | can | my eldest sister | the light | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | present | the other | the bottle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bottle=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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