The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 95
Take me to him, or it will be the worse for you.’
Who acts: you, strength · What happens: take, be · To what, where: me, brother
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, strength), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worse | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 worse | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worse | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 worse | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 worse | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 worse | det |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 worse | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | me | brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | future | strength | for you; bad property | tree rules |
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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