The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 112
Your wishing-cloak is hanging in a cupboard, and as for the bird-heart I will make a drink and give it back to you.’
Who acts: wishing cloak, I · What happens: hang, make, give back · To what, where: cupboard, drink, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wishing cloak, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cloak | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 wishing | punct |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hanging | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hanging | aux |
| 6 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cupboard | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cupboard | det |
| 9 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hanging | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 make | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heart | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bird | punct |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 make | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | aux |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hanging | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 drink | det |
| 22 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 give | cc |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 make | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | obj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 give | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 give | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hanging | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hanging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present · progressive | Your wishing cloak | a cupboard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cupboard=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | future | I | a drink | as the bird heart | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Product | |||
| 3 | give back | infinitive | I not said here | drink | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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