The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 57
‘Bring us three dishes, the nicest that you have, and a good bottle of wine.’
Who acts: you · What happens: bring, have · To what, where: three dishes, us
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obj |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dishes | nummod |
| 5 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Bring | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nicest | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nicest | det |
| 8 | nicest | nice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 dishes | appos |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 nicest | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bottle | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bottle | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bottle | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bottle | amod |
| 16 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wine | case |
| 18 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bottle | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | three dishes | us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination dish=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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