The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 32
“My friendly sea-weeds, I order you to stay here stretched upon the sand until the Fairy of the Desert comes to take you away.”
Who acts: friendly sea weeds · What happens: order, stay, stretch, come, take away · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friendly sea weeds), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 comes | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 weeds | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weeds | amod |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weeds | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sea | punct |
| 6 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 order | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 weeds | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 order | nsubj |
| 9 | order | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 comes | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 order | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stay | mark |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 order | xcomp |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stay | advmod |
| 14 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stay | xcomp |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 sand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sand | det |
| 17 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretched | obl |
| 18 | until | until | ADP | _ | 20 Fairy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fairy | det |
| 20 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 stretched | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Desert | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Desert | det |
| 23 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fairy | nmod |
| 24 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 comes | xcomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 take | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 take | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 comes | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order in a quote | present | My friendly sea weeds | you | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | My friendly sea weeds not said here | here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stretch in a quote | participle | My friendly sea weeds not said here | until the Fairy of the Desert | upon the sand | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | take away in a quote | to-infinitive | you | away property | vn remove-10.1 «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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