The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 86
You can carry the little maiden so far; put her down by the large bush with red berries growing in the snow.
Who acts: You, red berries · What happens: carry, put down, grow · To what, where: little maiden, queen, snow
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, red berries), 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 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | aux |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maiden | amod |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 carry | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carry | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 bush | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bush | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bush | amod |
| 16 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 berries | case |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 berries | amod |
| 19 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bush | nmod |
| 20 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 berries | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 snow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 snow | det |
| 23 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 growing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | can | You | the little maiden | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | |||
| 2 | put down | infinitive | You not said here | queen | by the large bush with red berries | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by bush=Destination | |||
| 3 | grow | gerund | red berries not said here | the snow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Location |
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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