The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 30
Then take the tip of each tongue and go with it to-morrow morning into the king’s kitchen.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, go · To what, where: tip, kitchen
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 take | advmod |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tip | det |
| 4 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tongue | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 tongue | det |
| 7 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tip | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 morning | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 morning | compound |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 kitchen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the tip of each tongue | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | the king's kitchen | morning | with tongue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location |
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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