The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 112
And send off the long-legged man with the letter.
Who acts: you · What happens: send off · To what, where: legged man
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 send | cc |
| 2 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 send | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legged | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 7 | legged | legged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 send | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 letter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 letter | det |
| 11 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 send | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send off | imperative | you not said here | the legged man | with the letter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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