The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 91
Therefore, in your new form, take the appearance of all these animals.”
Who acts: you, your · What happens: take, form · To what, where: appearance, new form
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 8 take | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 form | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 form | nmod:poss |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 form | amod |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 appearance | det |
| 10 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 animals | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 animals | det:predet |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 animals | det |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 appearance | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the appearance of all animals | your new form | therefore property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent appearance=Value in form=Location | ||
| 2 | form | your | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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