The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 10
But pick up three chips of the tree you felled, and put them in your pocket.”
Who acts: you · What happens: pick up, fell, put · To what, where: three chips, tree, chips, pocket
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 pick | cc |
| 2 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 pick | compound:prt |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 chips | nummod |
| 5 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pick | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chips | nmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 felled | nsubj |
| 10 | felled | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 pick | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pocket | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 17 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl | ||
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pick | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | imperative | you not said here | three chips of the tree | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fell | past | you | the tree not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | you not said here | chips = chip | your pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pocket=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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