The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 9
‘Take this boot which has a hole in the sole, hang it up on a nail in the hayloft, and pour water into it.
Who acts: you, boot · What happens: take, have, hang up, pour · To what, where: boot, hole, sole, nail, water
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boot), 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 | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 boot | det |
| 4 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boot | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hole | det |
| 8 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sole | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sole | det |
| 11 | sole | sole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hole | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hang | punct |
| 13 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hang | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 hang | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 nail | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nail | det |
| 18 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hang | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hayloft | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hayloft | det |
| 21 | hayloft | hayloft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nail | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pour | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pour | cc |
| 24 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pour | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pour | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this boot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | this boot | a hole | the sole | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | |||
| 3 | hang up | infinitive | you not said here | boot | a nail in the hayloft | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on nail=Destination | |||
| 4 | pour | infinitive | you not said here | water | boot | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into it=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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