The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 51
You must kill them and then burn them separately, and gather up the ashes.
Who acts: You · What happens: kill, burn, gather up · To what, where: dogs, ashes
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | aux |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 burn | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 burn | advmod |
| 7 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kill | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 burn | obj |
| 9 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 7 burn | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gather | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gather | cc |
| 12 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 gather | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ashes | det |
| 15 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gather | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | must | You | dogs = dog | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | infinitive | You not said here | dogs = dog | then | separately property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 3 | gather up | present | You not said here | the ashes | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=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 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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