The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 22
Fetch the skin of the ram which died last week out of the chest, and we will sew the wolf up in it.
Who acts: you, ram, we · What happens: fetch, die, sew up · To what, where: skin, chest, wolf
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ram, we), 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 | Fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 skin | det |
| 3 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fetch | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ram | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ram | det |
| 6 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 skin | nmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ram | acl:relcl |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 week | amod |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 chest | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chest | det |
| 14 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sew | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sew | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sew | aux |
| 19 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Fetch | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wolf | det |
| 21 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sew | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 sew | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sew | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fetch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | imperative | you not said here | the skin of the ram | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past | the ram | the chest | week | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | sew up | future | we | the wolf | wolf | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme in it=Destination |
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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