The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 65
Then gather three oranges, and get back to the gate as fast as you can.
Who acts: you · What happens: gather, get back · To what, where: three oranges
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 gather | advmod |
| 2 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 oranges | nummod |
| 4 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gather | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 gather | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 gate | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 back | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fast | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 get | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 can | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fast | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | imperative | you not said here | three oranges | then | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=Theme | |||
| 2 | get back | infinitive | you not said here | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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