The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 63
Do you take for yourself two horses, two camels, and two elephants, with all their trappings, and present the rest to her.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, present · To what, where: two horses, rest, princess
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 yourself | case |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 take | obl |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 horses | nummod |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 camels | punct |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 camels | nummod |
| 10 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 horses | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 elephants | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 elephants | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 elephants | nummod |
| 14 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 horses | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trappings | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 trappings | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 trappings | det:predet |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 trappings | nmod:poss |
| 19 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 horses | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 present | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 present | cc |
| 22 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rest | det |
| 24 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 present | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 present | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · do-support | you | two horses and two camels and two elephants and elephants's trappings | for yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | present | infinitive | you not said here | the rest | princess | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to she=Recipient |
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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