The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 52
Put your basket on the table, and then take off your frock and come and lie down by me: you shall rest a little.’
Who acts: you · What happens: put, take off, come, lie down, rest · To what, where: basket, table, frock, little
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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 basket | nmod:poss |
| 3 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 take | compound:prt |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 frock | nmod:poss |
| 13 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lie | cc |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 lie | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lie | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 rest | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 rest | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 rest | aux |
| 24 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Put | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 little | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rest | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 rest | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | your basket | the table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme on table=Destination | |||
| 2 | take off | infinitive | you not said here | your frock | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frock=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lie down | infinitive | you not said here | by me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by i=Location | ||||
| 5 | rest | shall | you | a little | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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