The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 64
Go into the garden and gather the flowers of the everlasting plant and some of dragon’s blood.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, gather · To what, where: garden, flowers
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 garden | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 garden | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gather | cc |
| 6 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flowers | det |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gather | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 plant | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plant | det |
| 11 | everlasting | everlasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plant | compound |
| 12 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flowers | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 some | cc |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 plant | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blood | case |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blood | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 dragon | case |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 some | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | gather | infinitive | you not said here | the flowers of the everlasting plant | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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