The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 43
‘Plant these two laurels in two large pots, rake them over with the rake, water them with the bucket, and wipe them with the towel.
Who acts: Plant · What happens: rake over, wipe · To what, where: laurel
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 (Plant), 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 | _ | 11 rake | punct |
| 2 | Plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rake | nsubj |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 laurels | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 laurels | nummod |
| 5 | laurels | laurel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Plant | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pots | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pots | nummod |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pots | amod |
| 9 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laurels | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Plant | punct |
| 11 | rake | rake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rake | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 rake | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 rake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rake | det |
| 16 | rake | rake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rake | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 water | punct |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rake | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 water | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 bucket | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bucket | det |
| 22 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 water | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wipe | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wipe | cc |
| 25 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rake | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wipe | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 towel | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 towel | det |
| 29 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wipe | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rake over | infinitive | Plant | laurel | with the rake and water rake with the bucket | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | wipe | infinitive | Plant not said here | laurel | with the towel | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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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