The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 43
Take this little many-coloured wand, and with a touch give to each root the form you desire to see.”
Who acts: you, this · What happens: take, wand, give, desire, see · To what, where: form, root
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 wand | nsubj |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wand | amod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coloured | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 many | punct |
| 6 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wand | amod |
| 7 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 touch | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 touch | det |
| 12 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 root | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 root | det |
| 16 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 form | det |
| 18 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 desire | nsubj |
| 20 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 form | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 desire | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wand | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | present | the form | each root | with a touch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Theme to root=Recipient | |||
| 4 | desire | present | you | the form not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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