The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 28

“Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.”

Who acts: you, latch · What happens: pull, go up · To what, where: bobbin

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Red Riding Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, latch), 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	_	2 Pull	punct
2	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bobbin	det
4	bobbin	bobbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pull	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 latch	det
8	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Pull	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 go	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Pull	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the bobbin					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bobbin=Theme
2	go up in a quote	future	the latch						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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