The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 12
Run, like a good fellow, and get it for me, while I raise the anchor and loosen the tiller.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: run, get, raise, loosen · To what, where: knife, anchor, tiller
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 fellow | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fellow | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Run | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 get | cc |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 raise | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 raise | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 raise | nsubj |
| 16 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 anchor | det |
| 18 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 raise | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 loosen | cc |
| 20 | loosen | loosen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 raise | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tiller | det |
| 22 | tiller | tiller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loosen | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | like a good fellow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | knife | for me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | raise | present | I | the anchor | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anchor=Theme | ||||
| 4 | loosen | infinitive | I not said here | the tiller | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tiller=Patient |
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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