The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 41

“You are fond of climbing; suppose you run up and throw me down a few.

Who acts: You · What happens: be, suppose, run up, throw down · To what, where: few, puma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. 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	_	4 fond	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 fond	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	cop
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 climbing	case
6	climbing	climbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fond	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 suppose	punct
8	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	parataxis
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 run	nsubj
10	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 suppose	ccomp
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 run	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 throw	cc
13	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 suppose	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 throw	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	13 throw	compound:prt
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 few	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 throw	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You			of climbing; fond property	tree rules
2	suppose in a quote	infinitive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	run up in a quote	present	you				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw down in a quote	infinitive		a few	puma		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination few=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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