The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 41
“Boil some water, and get him ready for cooking, while I go and invite my friends the water-demons to the feast.”
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: boil, get, go, invite · To what, where: water, ball, friends
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman), 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 Boil | punct |
| 2 | Boil | boil | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Boil | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Boil | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 get | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 cooking | case |
| 11 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ready | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Boil | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 invite | cc |
| 17 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friends | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 invite | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 demons | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 demons | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 water | punct |
| 23 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 invite | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 feast | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 feast | det |
| 26 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 invite | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boil | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil in a quote | imperative | you not said here | some water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | ball | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | woman | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | invite in a quote | infinitive | woman not said here | my friends | to the feast | tree rules |
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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