The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 38

‘It would be much better if you held them in your hands,’ said the young man, ‘and then put your legs one after the other in each hole.’

Who acts: air, you · What happens: be, hold, say, put · To what, where: legs, hands, young man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (air, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 better	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 held	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 held	nsubj
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 better	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 held	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 better	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ‘	punct
21	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 put	advmod
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 legs	nmod:poss
26	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 put	obj
28	after	after	ADP	_	30 other	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 put	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hole	case
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 hole	det
33	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 other	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	air				good property	tree rules
2	hold a condition, not said to happen	past	you	legs = leg	your hands			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in hand=Location
3	say speech: assert	past		the young man and ‘				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
4	put	infinitive		your legs		after the other; then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent leg=Asset one=Goal

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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