The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 270
Come, some of you, and hide yourselves, and if it comes again, catch it and wring its neck.’
Who acts: you, story · What happens: come, hide, catch, wring · To what, where: some, yourselves, story, neck
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, story), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 some | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Come | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 some | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hide | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hide | cc |
| 8 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 9 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 hide | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 catch | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 catch | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 comes | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 comes | nsubj |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 catch | advcl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 comes | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | punct |
| 17 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 catch | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wring | cc |
| 20 | wring | wring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 catch | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wring | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | some | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | infinitive | you not said here | yourselves | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | story | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch | infinitive | you not said here | story | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wring | infinitive | you not said here | story's neck | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
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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