The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 28
Go down to the river and unfasten a boat which lies moored there, and throw the chips into the water.
Who acts: you, boat · What happens: go down, unfasten, lie, moor, throw · To what, where: boat, chips, water
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, boat), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 river | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 unfasten | cc |
| 7 | unfasten | unfasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boat | det |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unfasten | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lies | nsubj |
| 11 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 boat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | moored | moor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lies | acl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 moored | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 throw | cc |
| 16 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chips | det |
| 18 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 throw | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 throw | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | imperative | you not said here | to the river; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | unfasten | infinitive | you not said here | a boat | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | a boat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | moor | participle | there | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | the chips | into the water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer chip=Theme into water=Result |
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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