The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 85
You may sit on my back, and then I can carry you there.”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: sit, carry · To what, where: back, you
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | aux |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 back | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sit | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carry | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 carry | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 carry | aux |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sit | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | obj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 carry | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | may | You | my back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 2 | carry | can | I | you | there | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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