The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 110
Put me on a silver dish and carry me to the palace.”
Who acts: you · What happens: put, carry · To what, where: me, silver dish, palace
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 dish | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dish | det |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dish | compound |
| 6 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carry | cc |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 carry | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | me | a silver dish | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on dish=Destination | |||
| 2 | carry | infinitive | you not said here | me | the palace | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to palace=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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