The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 81
‘Well, take this feather and stick it in your hair, and you will be as wise as Solomon himself.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, stick, be · To what, where: feather, hair
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 take | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 feather | det |
| 6 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stick | cc |
| 8 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stick | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hair | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hair | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stick | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wise | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wise | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 wise | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wise | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wise | cop |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 wise | advmod |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 take | parataxis |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Solomon | case |
| 21 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wise | obl |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 Solomon | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this feather | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stick | infinitive | you not said here | feather | your hair | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hair=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | future | you | as Solomon Solomon; wise property | tree rules |
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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