The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 86
Dress yourself, and saddle the mules, and begin your work.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: dress, saddle, begin, work · To what, where: yourself, mules, work
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | Dress | dress | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Dress | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saddle | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saddle | cc |
| 5 | saddle | saddle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dress | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mules | det |
| 7 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saddle | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 begin | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 begin | cc |
| 10 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Dress | advcl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 work | nmod:poss |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begin | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | saddle | infinitive | you not said here | the mules | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mule=Destination | ||||
| 3 | begin | infinitive | you not said here | your work | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | work | your | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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