The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 50
‘Take the box,’ replied the voice, ‘and hide it under your pillow, and when you see an Eagle, give it to him without losing a moment.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, reply, hide, see, give, lose · To what, where: box, voice, pillow, Eagle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hide | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 13 hide | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hide | cc |
| 13 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hide | obj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 pillow | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hide | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 see | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Eagle | det |
| 24 | Eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 see | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | obl |
| 30 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 31 losing | mark |
| 31 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 give | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 moment | det |
| 33 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 losing | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | the box | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the voice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hide | present | box | your pillow | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under pillow=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | present | you | a Eagle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | you not said here | Eagle | voice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 6 | lose | gerund | you not said here | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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