The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 57
“And if you should get tired on the road, just take it out of your pocket and rustle the paper.”
Who acts: you · What happens: get, take, rustle · To what, where: road, pocket, paper
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 take | advcl |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tired | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 take | advmod |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl | ||
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rustle | cc |
| 20 | rustle | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 paper | det |
| 22 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rustle | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | should | you | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | road | your pocket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | rustle in a quote | present | you not said here | the paper | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paper=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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