The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 46
‘Take your own mind of it,’ said the king; ‘but if you don’t get that dove within three days you shall lose your heads, the whole lot of you.’
Who acts: you, your · What happens: take, say, not get, lose, mind · To what, where: own mind, king, dove, heads, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
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, your), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mind | amod |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 lose | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 lose | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 lose | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 get | advmod |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 lose | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 dove | det |
| 22 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 days | case |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 days | nummod |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 get | obl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 lose | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 lose | aux |
| 28 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heads | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lose | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lot | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lot | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lot | amod |
| 34 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lose | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 lot | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 lose | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | your own mind of mind | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not get a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | that dove | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | lose | shall | you | your heads | the whole lot of you obl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | mind | your | mind | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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