The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 27
“Little boy, gather some moss from the spring over there, and let your brothers smell it.”
Who acts: Little boy, brothers · What happens: gather, let, smell · To what, where: moss
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little boy, brothers), 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 gather | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gather | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 boy | punct |
| 5 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 moss | det |
| 7 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gather | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 spring | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spring | det |
| 10 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gather | obl |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 there | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gather | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 gather | parataxis |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 smell | nsubj |
| 18 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 smell | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gather | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather in a quote | infinitive | Little boy | some moss | there | spring | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moss=Theme | ||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | smell in a quote | present | your brothers | moss | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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