The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 2
Then get down, and scrape off the foam with a knife.
Who acts: you · What happens: get down, scrape off · To what, where: foam
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 get | advmod |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 get | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 scrape | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 scrape | cc |
| 6 | scrape | scrape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | conj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 scrape | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 foam | det |
| 9 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scrape | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 knife | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knife | det |
| 12 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scrape | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | imperative | you not said here | then | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | scrape off | infinitive | you not said here | the foam | with a knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foam=Patient with knife=Instrument |
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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