The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 67
“Jump on my back, dear fox, and you will find yourself in a trice on the opposite shore.”
Who acts: you · What happens: jump, find · To what, where: back, yourself, trice
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. 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 | _ | 2 Jump | punct |
| 2 | Jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jump | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fox | punct |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fox | amod |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Jump | conj |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 trice | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 trice | det |
| 17 | trice | trice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 shore | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shore | det |
| 20 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shore | amod |
| 21 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trice | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jump | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jump | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my back and dear fox | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | future | you | yourself | a trice on the opposite shore | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic |
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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