The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 11
Get up behind with you,’ he said to the boy, and off the horse went with them straight up into the air.
Who acts: you, son · What happens: get up, say, go · To what, where: boy, air · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Get | compound:prt |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Get | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 boy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | obl |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 up | advmod |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | imperative | you not said here | with you; behind property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | son | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | son not said here | the air | off the horse; with man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme off horse=Initial_Location into air=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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