The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 93
You must bring me the covering with the little bells that lies on the bed of the dragon, or I will have you hewn into a thousand pieces.’
Who acts: You, little bells, I · What happens: bring, lie, have, hewn · To what, where: covering, me, bed, you, thousand pieces
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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, little bells, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 covering | det |
| 6 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 bells | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bells | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bells | amod |
| 10 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bring | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lies | nsubj |
| 12 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bells | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bed | det |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lies | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 dragon | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bed | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bring | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 have | obj |
| 25 | hewn | hewn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 have | xcomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 pieces | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 thousand | det |
| 28 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 pieces | nummod |
| 29 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hewn | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | must | You | the covering | me | with the little bells | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination covering=Theme | ||
| 2 | lie | present | the little bells | the bed of the dragon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | future | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hewn | participle | you not said here | thousand pieces | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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