The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 10
‘Now bring me my harp, and I will have a little music while you take your walk.’
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: bring, have, take, walk · To what, where: harp, me, little music, walk
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. 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, your), 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 | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bring | advmod |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 harp | nmod:poss |
| 6 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bring | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 music | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 music | amod |
| 14 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | advcl |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 walk | nmod:poss |
| 19 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | my harp | me | now | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination harp=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | future | I | a little music | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | present | you | your walk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | ||||
| 4 | walk | your | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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