The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 101
“Just carry me to your cave and eat me up as quick as you can.”
Who acts: you · What happens: carry, eat up · To what, where: bear, cave
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. 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 | _ | 3 carry | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 carry | advmod |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cave | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eat | cc |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 eat | compound:prt |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 quick | advmod |
| 13 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eat | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 can | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 quick | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the bear = bear | your cave | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to cave=Destination | |||
| 2 | eat up in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the bear = bear | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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