The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 60
Don’t try to press it open, but oil the hinges with this,’ and the old man gave him a small bottle.
Who acts: you, oil hinges · What happens: not try, press, give · To what, where: gate, small bottle, man
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, oil hinges), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | aux |
| 2 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | aux |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 press | mark |
| 5 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 press | obj |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 press | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hinges | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hinges | cc |
| 10 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hinges | compound |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hinges | det |
| 12 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 hinges | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’ | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 hinges | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 man | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bottle | det |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bottle | amod |
| 25 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | press not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | gate | open property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | the oil hinges with this | a small bottle | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bottle=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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