The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 86
'Cover yourselves with honey, and hop round by the beehives,' commanded the frog, putting on the cap which her friend was holding in her mouth.
Who acts: you, friend · What happens: cover, hop, command, put, hold · To what, where: yourselves, frog, cap, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, friend), 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 Cover | punct |
| 2 | Cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Cover | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 honey | case |
| 5 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cover | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hop | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hop | cc |
| 8 | hop | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Cover | advcl |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 hop | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 beehives | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beehives | det |
| 12 | beehives | beehive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hop | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 commanded | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 commanded | punct |
| 15 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hop | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 frog | det |
| 17 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 commanded | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 putting | punct |
| 19 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 commanded | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 cap | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cap | det |
| 22 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 putting | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 holding | obj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friend | nmod:poss |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 holding | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 holding | aux |
| 27 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 cap | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 mouth | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 holding | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | imperative | you not said here | yourselves | with honey | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourselves=Destination with honey=Theme | |||
| 2 | hop | present | you not said here | by the beehives; round property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by beehive=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | command | past | the frog | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frog=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | gerund | the cap | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cap=Destination | |||||
| 5 | hold | past · progressive | frog's friend | the cap | frog's mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme in mouth=Location |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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