The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 125
Fly quick, my little stick, Carry me across the stream.
Who acts: you · What happens: fly, carry · To what, where: little stick, me, stream
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. 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 | Fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 1 Fly | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stick | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stick | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stick | amod |
| 6 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fly | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Carry | punct |
| 8 | Carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Fly | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Carry | obj |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 stream | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stream | det |
| 12 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Carry | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | imperative | you not said here | my little stick | quick property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | infinitive | you not said here | me | the stream | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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