The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 69
'Hasten, hasten, Covan the Brown-haired, for your cows are in the corn, and you must drive them out!'
Who acts: you, cows · What happens: hasten, be, drive out · To what, where: Covan, cows
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cows), 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 Hasten | punct |
| 2 | Hasten | hasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hasten | punct |
| 4 | hasten | hasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hasten | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Covan | punct |
| 6 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hasten | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 haired | det |
| 8 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 haired | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brown | punct |
| 10 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Covan | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 corn | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 corn | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cows | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 corn | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 corn | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 corn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 corn | det |
| 18 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hasten | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drive | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drive | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 drive | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 drive | aux |
| 23 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Hasten | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drive | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 drive | compound:prt |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hasten | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | imperative | you not said here | Covan | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hasten | infinitive | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | your cows | for the corn | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drive out | must | you | cows = cow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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