The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 47
Now that you are King, please take me out of this dull tower, for I am so tired of it.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, take · To what, where: King, me, dull tower
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, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 take | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 King | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 King | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 King | cop |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 7 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 8 take | discourse |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 tower | det |
| 13 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tower | amod |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tired | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 tired | case |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tired | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tired | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 tired | advmod |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 take | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tired | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | me | this dull tower | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out tower=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | is | present | I | of tower; tired property | tree rules |
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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