The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 5
“O prince, let me dip my burning head once in the lake, and I will hurl you up to the top of the sky.”
Who acts: prince, dragon · What happens: let, dip, hurl up · To what, where: dragon, burning head, lake, you, top
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, dragon), 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 prince | discourse |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | compound |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dip | obj |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 dip | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dip | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hurl | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hurl | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 hurl | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurl | aux |
| 19 | hurl | hurl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 hurl | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 hurl | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 top | det |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hurl | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sky | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sky | det |
| 27 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 top | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | prince | the dragon = dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dip in a quote | infinitive | the dragon = dragon not said here | my burning head | the lake | once property | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme in lake=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | hurl up in a quote | future | the dragon = dragon | you | the top of the sky | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme to top=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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