The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 59

“If you will be good enough to plant me by my comrades again, I can tell you where your pinks are at this moment--hidden in Bruno’s bed!”

Who acts: you, cabbage, pinks · What happens: be, plant, tell, hide · To what, where: cabbage, you, moment, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cabbage, pinks), 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	_	9 plant	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 good	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 good	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plant	advcl
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 plant	mark
9	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 plant	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 comrades	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 comrades	nmod:poss
13	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plant	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	9 plant	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 plant	parataxis
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 moment	advmod
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pinks	nmod:poss
22	pinks	pink	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 moment	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 moment	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 moment	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 hidden	punct
28	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 moment	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 bed	case
30	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 bed	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Bruno	case
32	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hidden	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 plant	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 plant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you					enough, good property	tree rules
2	plant in a quote	to-infinitive		the cabbage = cabbage			again	by my comrades	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme by comrade=Destination
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the cabbage = cabbage		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	your pinks				at this moment		tree rules
5	hide in a quote	participle		this moment not said here		Bruno's bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=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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