The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 37
Take the good-for-nothing wretch out of our house.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: good nothing wretch, house
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wretch | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wretch | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 nothing | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 for | punct |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 wretch | compound |
| 8 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the good nothing wretch | our house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wretch=Theme out house=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 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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