The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 81
‘Well, you must take it to a goldsmith and get him to make it into a golden lion, with eyes of crystal; and inside it must have something that will enable it to play tunes.
Who acts: you, goldsmith, plenty · What happens: take, get, make, have, enable, play · To what, where: plenty, goldsmith, something, tunes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, goldsmith, plenty), 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 | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 take | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 goldsmith | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 goldsmith | det |
| 10 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 get | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 lion | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lion | amod |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eyes | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lion | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 crystal | case |
| 25 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eyes | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 have | cc |
| 28 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 31 have | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 have | nsubj |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | aux |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 32 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 have | obj |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 enable | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 enable | aux |
| 35 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 something | acl:relcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 enable | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 play | mark |
| 38 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 enable | xcomp |
| 39 | tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 play | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | you | plenty | a goldsmith | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to goldsmith=Destination | |||
| 2 | get | infinitive | you not said here | goldsmith | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | goldsmith not said here | plenty | into a golden lion and eyes of crystal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into lion=Product | |||
| 4 | have | must | plenty | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 5 | enable | future | plenty | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | play | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | tunes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=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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