The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 19
Steal only the hen which has the feather missing from her tail, and leave the others alone.”
Who acts: you, hen, feather · What happens: steal, have, miss, leave · To what, where: hen, feather, tail, others
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hen, feather), 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 | Steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 hen | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hen | det |
| 4 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Steal | obl |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hen | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feather | det |
| 8 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | missing | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 feather | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 tail | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 missing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leave | cc |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Steal | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 others | det |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 leave | obj |
| 18 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 leave | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Steal | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Steal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | imperative | you not said here | the hen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the hen | the feather | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | ||||
| 3 | miss | gerund | the feather not said here | feather's tail | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | the others | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
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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