The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 35
“Now go and fetch me the cock and the basket,” and the woman went without a word, and placed them on the table.
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: go, fetch, place · To what, where: cock, man, cries, table
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman), 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 | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fetch | cc |
| 5 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fetch | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cock | det |
| 8 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fetch | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 basket | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 basket | det |
| 11 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cock | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 word | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 placed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 placed | cc |
| 23 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 placed | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 table | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 table | det |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 placed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the cock and the basket | man | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary cock=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | the woman | without a word | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | place | past | the woman not said here | cries = cry | the table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on table=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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