The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 2
“Take me up higher, where the sounds can reach me.”
Who acts: you, sounds · What happens: take up, reach · To what, where: youth
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sounds), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Take | compound:prt |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Take | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reach | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 reach | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sounds | det |
| 9 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reach | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 reach | aux |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Take | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 reach | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the youth = youth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | reach in a quote | can | the sounds | the youth = youth | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent i=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 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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