The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 27
The lover advised them to get a basket and to put the walnuts in it, so as to turn them into the cart.
Who acts: lover, walnuts · What happens: advise, get, put, turn · To what, where: walnuts, basket, cart
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lover, walnuts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lover | det |
| 2 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advised | nsubj |
| 3 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advised | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 advised | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 basket | det |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walnuts | det |
| 13 | walnuts | walnut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turn | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 turn | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 turn | mark |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 turn | mark |
| 20 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turn | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 cart | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cart | det |
| 24 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turn | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | the lover | walnuts = walnut | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | walnuts = walnut not said here | a basket | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basket=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | walnuts = walnut not said here | the walnuts | basket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walnut=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 4 | turn | to-infinitive | walnuts = walnut not said here | walnuts = walnut | the cart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into cart=Trajectory |
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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