The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 7
‘Take everything you can, till you are bent double.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, bend · To what, where: everything, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 can | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 everything | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bent | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 bent | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bent | aux:pass |
| 10 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Take | advcl |
| 11 | double | double | ADV | _ | 10 bent | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | everything | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bend | present · passive | you | double property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
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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