The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 50
Now take a walk down the garden, and come back when you’re tired.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, come back, be · To what, where: walk
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 take | advmod |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 walk | det |
| 4 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 ’re | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ’re | nsubj |
| 14 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | advcl |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ’re | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a walk | now | down the garden | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | ||
| 2 | come back | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | does | present | you | tired property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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