The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 13
“Go and travel with it, and show it off,” said he, “and you will become a rich man; but be careful first to ask the tanuki’s leave, and also to perform some magic ceremonies to prevent him from running away at the sight of the people.”
Who acts: Jimmu, you · What happens: go, travel, show off, say, become, be · To what, where: kettle, rich man, leave, magic ceremonies, Jimmu, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jimmu, 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 | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 travel | cc |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 travel | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 show | cc |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 show | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 show | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 become | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 become | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 become | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 become | xcomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 careful | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 careful | cc |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 careful | cop |
| 28 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | parataxis |
| 29 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 careful | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 ask | mark |
| 31 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 careful | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tanuki | det |
| 33 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leave | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 tanuki | case |
| 35 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ask | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 perform | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 perform | cc |
| 38 | also | also | ADV | _ | 40 perform | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 perform | mark |
| 40 | perform | perform | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | parataxis |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 ceremonies | det |
| 42 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 ceremonies | amod |
| 43 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 perform | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 prevent | mark |
| 45 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 perform | advcl |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 prevent | obj |
| 47 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 48 running | mark |
| 48 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 prevent | advcl |
| 49 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 running | advmod |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 sight | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 sight | det |
| 52 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 running | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 people | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 people | det |
| 55 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 sight | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 perform | punct |
| 57 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 perform | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | travel in a quote | infinitive | with kettle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show off in a quote | infinitive | kettle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Jimmu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | become in a quote | future | you | a rich man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | infinitive | careful, first property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | the tanuki's leave | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient | |||||
| 8 | perform in a quote | to-infinitive | some magic ceremonies | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Theme | |||||
| 9 | prevent in a quote | to-infinitive | Jimmu | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | |||||
| 10 | run away in a quote | gerund | the sight of the people | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Trajectory | ||||
| 11 | sight in a quote | the people | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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