The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 41
You must get into the castle, and if possible possess yourself of a hen that lays golden eggs, and a harp that talks.
Who acts: You, hen, harp · What happens: get, possess, lay, talk · To what, where: castle, yourself, golden eggs
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, hen, harp), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 possess | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 possess | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 possible | mark |
| 10 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 possess | advcl |
| 11 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | parataxis |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 possess | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hen | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hen | det |
| 15 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 possess | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lays | nsubj |
| 17 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hen | acl:relcl |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eggs | amod |
| 19 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lays | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 harp | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 harp | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 harp | det |
| 23 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 talks | nsubj |
| 25 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 harp | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | must | You | the castle | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into castle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | possess | present | yourself | of a hen | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | a hen | golden eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 4 | talk | present | a harp | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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