The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 20
And in case you should have forgotten, I will take these seven tongues with me so that when I bring them forth you may know that I am really he who slew the serpent.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: forget, take, bring, know, slay · To what, where: seven tongues, tongues, serpent
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 7 forgotten | mark |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 in | fixed |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 forgotten | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgotten | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forgotten | aux |
| 7 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 take | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgotten | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 tongues | det |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 tongues | nummod |
| 14 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obl |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 bring | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 bring | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | nsubj |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 bring | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 slew | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 slew | nsubj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 slew | reparandum |
| 30 | really | really | ADV | _ | 33 slew | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 slew | nsubj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 slew | nsubj |
| 33 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | ccomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 serpent | det |
| 35 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 slew | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | should · perfect | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | future | I | this seven tongues | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | present | I | tongues = tongue | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | know | may | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | slay | past | I | the serpent | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Patient |
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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