The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 20
The sword has a knob at the end, and take heed that when you grasp it, you draw it softly out of its sheath.
Who acts: sword, you · What happens: have, take, grasp, draw · To what, where: knob, end, heed, Sword, sheath
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 knob | det |
| 5 | knob | knob | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knob | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 12 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 grasp | obj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 grasp | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 grasp | nsubj |
| 16 | grasp | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heed | acl:relcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grasp | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 draw | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 draw | nsubj |
| 20 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 draw | obj |
| 22 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 20 draw | advmod |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 sheath | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sheath | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 draw | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the sword | a knob | at the end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knob=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grasp | present | you | heed | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | draw | present | you | Sword | Sword's sheath | softly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out sheath=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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