The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 94
Tell her to pick out and lay in a separate heap the feathers of each bird.
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, pick out, lay · To what, where: Fairy, separate heap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pick | mark |
| 4 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pick | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lay | cc |
| 7 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pick | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heap | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 heap | det |
| 10 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heap | amod |
| 11 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feathers | det |
| 13 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heap | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bird | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feathers | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | Fairy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pick out not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | you not said here | a separate heap | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Result |
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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