The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 52

“Pick it up and take it with you.”

Who acts: you · What happens: pick up, take · To what, where: snake

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	_	2 Pick	punct
2	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Pick	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 Pick	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 take	cc
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Pick	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Pick	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	snake					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	take in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	snake				with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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