The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 240
‘Go into the town and find out the best kitchen, and bring me all the nicest morsels that are being roasted upon the spit.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, find out, bring, roast · To what, where: town, best kitchen, nicest morsels, me
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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 find | cc |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 find | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kitchen | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 kitchen | amod |
| 11 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 morsels | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 morsels | det |
| 18 | nicest | nice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 morsels | amod |
| 19 | morsels | morsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bring | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 roasted | aux:pass |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 roasted | aux:pass |
| 23 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 morsels | acl:relcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 spit | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 spit | det |
| 26 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 roasted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find out | infinitive | you not said here | the best kitchen | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kitchen=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | all nicest morsels | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination morsel=Theme | |||
| 4 | roast | present · passive | all nicest morsels | upon the spit | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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