The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 67
‘But just cut a hole in the corn sacks, and then they will be so busy with the corn that they will forget us.’
Who acts: you, birds · What happens: cut, be, forget · To what, where: hole, corn sacks, us
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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, birds), 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 | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 cut | cc |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 cut | advmod |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sacks | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sacks | det |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sacks | compound |
| 10 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cut | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 busy | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 busy | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 busy | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 busy | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 busy | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 busy | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 busy | advmod |
| 18 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cut | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 corn | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 corn | det |
| 21 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 busy | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 forget | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forget | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 forget | aux |
| 25 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 busy | advcl |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 forget | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | imperative | you not said here | a hole | the corn sacks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | |||
| 2 | is | future | birds = bird | then | with the corn; busy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | forget | future | birds = bird | us | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/38/67/