The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 11
You shall take this good piece of cake to your Grandmother for a Sunday treat to-morrow.
Who acts: You · What happens: take · To what, where: good piece, Grandmother
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 piece | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 piece | amod |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cake | case |
| 8 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Grandmother | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 treat | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 treat | det |
| 14 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 treat | compound |
| 15 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 morrow | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 to | punct |
| 18 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | shall | You | this good piece of cake | your Grandmother | for a Sunday treat; to morrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to grandmother=Destination |
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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