The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 10
Look, if there is only one, I shall take him so with both my hands and thrown him living on to his back, and he can kick as much as he likes, I shall hold him fast.’
Who acts: you, one, I, two · What happens: look, be, take, throw, live, kick · To what, where: two, back, much
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, I, two), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 is | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 one | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 hands | det:predet |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thrown | cc |
| 19 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 take | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thrown | obj |
| 21 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 thrown | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 back | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 on | fixed |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 back | nmod:poss |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 living | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kick | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 kick | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 kick | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 kick | aux |
| 30 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 much | advmod |
| 32 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kick | obj |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 likes | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 likes | nsubj |
| 35 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 much | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hold | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 hold | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 hold | aux |
| 39 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 kick | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 hold | obj |
| 41 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 hold | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | shall | I | two | with my hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | throw | participle | I not said here | two | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live | gerund | I not said here | two's back | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location | ||||
| 6 | kick | can | two | much | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 7 | like | present | two | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 8 | hold | shall | I | two | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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