The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 89
You may seat yourself on my back, and then I will carry you to him.”.
Who acts: I · What happens: carry · To what, where: you, Wind
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 (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 seat | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 seat | aux |
| 3 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seat | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seat | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carry | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 carry | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 carry | aux |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seat | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carry | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | future | I | you | Wind | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to he=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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