The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 60
Come here, child; go into my wardrobe: he never ventures to open _that;_ you will be safe there.’
Who acts: you, boy · What happens: come, go, not venture, open, be · To what, where: child, wardrobe
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, boy), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 wardrobe | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wardrobe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 ventures | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ventures | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 ventures | advmod |
| 13 | ventures | venture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Come | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 open | mark |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ventures | acl |
| 16 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 open | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 safe | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 safe | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 safe | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 safe | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 safe | cop |
| 23 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 safe | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | child | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | my wardrobe | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wardrobe=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not venture | boy | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive | you not said here | _ ventures | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | future | you | there | safe 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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