The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 107
You must find a runner who shall take this letter to the ruler of the Underworld, and bring me the answer back in an hour.’
Who acts: You, runner · What happens: find, take, bring · To what, where: runner, letter, ruler, answer, me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, runner), 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 find | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 runner | det |
| 5 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 runner | acl:relcl |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ruler | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ruler | det |
| 13 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Underworld | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Underworld | det |
| 16 | Underworld | Underworld | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ruler | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bring | cc |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 answer | det |
| 22 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 bring | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hour | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hour | det |
| 26 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | must | You | a runner | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | shall | a runner | this letter | the ruler of the Underworld | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to ruler=Destination | |||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | a runner not said here | the answer | me | hour | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination answer=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 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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