The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 121
Run away and lie down among the dead bodies that he has in the room (showing me the place), and strip off your clothes that he may not know you from the rest if he has occasion to go that way.”
Who acts: you, giant, room · What happens: run away, lie down, have, show, strip off, not know · To what, where: dead bodies, room, place, me, clothes, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, giant, room), 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 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lie | cc |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | conj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lie | advmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 bodies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bodies | det |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bodies | amod |
| 9 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 has | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obl |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 showing | punct |
| 17 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 room | acl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 showing | iobj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 showing | obj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 showing | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 strip | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 strip | cc |
| 24 | strip | strip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 strip | compound:prt |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 strip | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 know | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 know | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 know | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 know | advmod |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 strip | advcl |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 know | obj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 rest | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rest | det |
| 36 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 know | obl |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 has | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 has | nsubj |
| 39 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 know | ccomp |
| 40 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 has | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 go | mark |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 occasion | acl |
| 43 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 way | det |
| 44 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 go | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie down | infinitive | you not said here | the dead bodies | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among body=Location | |||
| 3 | have | present | giant | the room | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show | gerund | the room not said here | the place | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient place=Topic | |||
| 5 | strip off | infinitive | you not said here | your clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not know | may | giant | you | the rest | tree rules | |||
| 7 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | giant | occasion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient | ||||
| 8 | go | to-infinitive | giant not said here | that way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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