The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 40
“Go again into the garden, and you will find six lizards behind the watering-pot, bring them to me.”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, find, bring · To what, where: garden, six lizards, watering pot, lizards, Cinderella
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 find | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Go | conj |
| 12 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 lizards | nummod |
| 13 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 find | obj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 pot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pot | det |
| 16 | watering | watering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pot | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 watering | punct |
| 18 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the garden | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find in a quote | future | you | six lizards | the watering pot | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Topic | |||
| 3 | bring in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | lizards = lizard | Cinderella | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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