The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 23
“The head, your master, bids you open the trunk, and to give me the red purse which you will find in it.”
Who acts: head bids, you · What happens: open, give, find · To what, where: trunk, red purse, old woman, purse
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 (head bids, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bids | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bids | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 master | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 head | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 head | punct |
| 8 | bids | bid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 open | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 open | nsubj |
| 10 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trunk | det |
| 12 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 open | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 open | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 purse | det |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 purse | amod |
| 20 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 find | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 purse | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 open | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open in a quote | present | head bids | the trunk | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trunk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | head bids not said here | the red purse | the old woman = woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient purse=Theme | |||
| 3 | find in a quote | future | you | the red purse | purse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
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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