The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 11
It was very kind of you to bring me to this place, but I shall be even more grateful to you if you will take me up into the world again.”
Who acts: It, you, I · What happens: be, bring, take up · To what, where: me, place, you, world
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, you, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 kind | advmod |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grateful | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 grateful | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 grateful | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 grateful | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 grateful | cop |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 grateful | advmod |
| 20 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kind | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 grateful | obl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 take | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 take | aux |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 grateful | advcl |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 take | obj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 take | compound:prt |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obl |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 take | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | you | me | this place | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | shall | I | you | grateful property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take up a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | the world | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into world=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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