The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 139
You could live in a cottage at the end of the park, and help your husband to draw up water from the well, and when we get up you could bring us our bouquets.’
Who acts: You, husband, we · What happens: live, help, draw up, get up, bring · To what, where: cottage, husband, water, well, bouquets, us
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, husband, we), 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 live | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | aux |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cottage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cottage | det |
| 6 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 park | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 park | det |
| 12 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 help | cc |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 draw | mark |
| 19 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 help | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 draw | compound:prt |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 draw | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 well | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 well | det |
| 24 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 draw | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bring | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bring | cc |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 get | advmod |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 get | nsubj |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 bring | advcl |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 get | compound:prt |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 bring | aux |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 live | conj |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | obj |
| 35 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 bouquets | nmod:poss |
| 36 | bouquets | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bring | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | could | You | a cottage | at the end of the park | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location | |||
| 2 | help | infinitive | You not said here | your husband | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw up | to-infinitive | your husband not said here | water | the well | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | get up | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | bring | could | you | our bouquets | us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination bouquet=Theme |
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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