The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 71
When you have got there you must just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again; but you may take the golden apple with you.”
Who acts: you · What happens: get, strike, bid, go, take · To what, where: horse, ear, golden apple
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 strike | csubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 strike | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 strike | aux |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 strike | advmod |
| 9 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strike | obj |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 ear | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ear | det |
| 14 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ear | amod |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strike | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bid | cc |
| 17 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 strike | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bid | obj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bid | xcomp |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 take | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 take | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 take | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 take | aux |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 strike | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 apple | det |
| 28 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 apple | amod |
| 29 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 take | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 strike | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | strike | must | you | the horse | beneath the left ear | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument | |||
| 3 | bid | infinitive | you not said here | ear | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | you not said here | again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | take | may | you | the golden apple | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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