The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 13

Then shake them off, and turn their toes to the known, and their heels to the unknown, and they will come home of themselves.’

Who acts: you, holes · What happens: shake off, turn, know, come · To what, where: holes, toes, known heels

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, holes), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 shake	advmod
2	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shake	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 shake	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 turn	cc
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shake	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 toes	nmod:poss
9	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	16 heels	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heels	det
12	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 heels	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heels	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heels	cc
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heels	nmod:poss
16	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 unknown	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 unknown	det
19	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turn	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 come	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shake	conj
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 themselves	case
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shake	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake off	imperative	you not said here	holes = hole		then		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	turn	present	you not said here	holes's toes	holes's known heels		to the unknown	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent toe=Theme to heel=Source to unknown=Trajectory
3	know	participle						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come	future	holes = hole				of holes = hole; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of themselves=Initial_Location

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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