The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 54
You can take the flower-pot and the glass of water that stands in the window, and we must slip out by that and get away.’
Who acts: You, water, we · What happens: take, stand, slip out, get away · To what, where: flower pot, window
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, water, we), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 glass | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 glass | det |
| 10 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glass | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stands | nsubj |
| 14 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 water | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stands | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slip | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 slip | cc |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 slip | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 slip | aux |
| 22 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 slip | compound:prt |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 slip | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 get | cc |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 slip | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 get | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | You | the flower pot and the glass of water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | water | the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in window=Location | ||||
| 3 | slip out | must | we | by that | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | get away | infinitive | we not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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