The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 30
Take this purse full of jewels and make the best use you can of them for love of me, and come back quickly and demand my hand.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, make, come back, demand, love · To what, where: purse, best use, hand, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. 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 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 purse | det |
| 3 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 purse | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 jewels | case |
| 6 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 use | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 use | amod |
| 11 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 can | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 use | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 can | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 love | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 demand | cc |
| 26 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 demand | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | 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 | this purse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | you not said here | the best use | for love of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent use=Product for love=Asset | |||
| 3 | come back | infinitive | you not said here | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | infinitive | you not said here | my hand | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | love | me | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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