The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 51
Put the kettle on the fire, but be sure on no account to taste the broth.”
Who acts: you · What happens: put, be, taste · To what, where: kettle, fire, account, broth
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), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kettle | det |
| 3 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 sure | cc |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Put | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 account | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 account | det |
| 13 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sure | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 taste | mark |
| 15 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 broth | det |
| 17 | broth | broth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taste | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | the kettle | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | you not said here | no account | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | taste | to-infinitive | you not said here | the broth | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme broth=Attribute |
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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