The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 37
‘Oh! take me out, take me out, or I shall be burnt to a cinder.
Who acts: you · What happens: take out, burnt · To what, where: me, I
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 take | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 take | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 burnt | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 burnt | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 burnt | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 burnt | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 burnt | aux:pass |
| 16 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 take | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cinder | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cinder | det |
| 19 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burnt | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | imperative | you not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take out | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burnt | shall · passive | I | to a cinder | 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.
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