The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 114
‘Can you take us, can you take us to the kingdom of the peacocks?’
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: us, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 kingdom | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kingdom | det |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 peacocks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 peacocks | det |
| 16 | peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kingdom | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | you | us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | can | you | us | the kingdom of the peacocks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to kingdom=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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