The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 121
‘You take the yellow basket and I will take the green one.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: take · To what, where: yellow basket, green one
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 basket | amod |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | You | the yellow basket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | future | I | the green one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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