The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 43
‘Oh! shake me, shake me, my apples are all quite ripe.’
Who acts: you, apples · What happens: shake, be · To what, where: me
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, apples), 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 shake | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 shake | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 shake | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shake | punct |
| 7 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 shake | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 shake | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ripe | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 apples | nmod:poss |
| 11 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ripe | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ripe | cop |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 ripe | advmod |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 ripe | advmod |
| 15 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shake | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shake | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | me | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shake | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | my apples | all, ripe property | 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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