The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 69
Climb on my back, and I will take you where you will.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: climb, take · To what, where: back, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 back | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 back | nmod:poss |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Climb | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Climb | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 will | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 will | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Climb | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | imperative | you not said here | my back | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take | future | I | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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