The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 8
“The head, your master, desires you to open the trunk, and to give me the green purse which you will find in it.”
Who acts: head, you · What happens: desire, open, give, find · To what, where: you, trunk, green purse, lord, head
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, 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 desires | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 desires | nsubj |
| 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 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 desires | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 open | mark |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 desires | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trunk | det |
| 13 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 give | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 open | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 purse | det |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 purse | amod |
| 21 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 find | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 purse | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 desires | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 desires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire in a quote | present | the head and your master | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the head and your master not said here | the trunk | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trunk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | the head and your master not said here | the green purse | my lord = lord | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient purse=Theme | |||
| 4 | find in a quote | future | you | the green purse | head | 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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