The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 6
You yourselves can tell each other tales, and Kai will fetch you from the kitchen a flagon of mean and some meat.’
Who acts: You, Kai · What happens: tell, fetch · To what, where: other tales, you, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Kai), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 You | nmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 tales | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tales | amod |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fetch | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fetch | cc |
| 10 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fetch | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fetch | aux |
| 12 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 fetch | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 kitchen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kitchen | det |
| 16 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fetch | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 flagon | det |
| 18 | flagon | flagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kitchen | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mean | case |
| 20 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flagon | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 meat | cc |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 meat | det |
| 23 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flagon | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | You | each other tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fetch | future | Kai | you | the kitchen | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from kitchen=Source |
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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