The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 9
Take the cloak with you; it is a wishing-cloak, and when you throw it on your shoulders you have only to wish yourself at a certain place, and in the twinkling of an eye you are there.
Who acts: you, cloak · What happens: take, be, throw, have, wish · To what, where: cloak, twinkling, wishing cloak, shoulders, yourself, certain place
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 (you, cloak), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cloak | det |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 cloak | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cloak | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cloak | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cloak | det |
| 10 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cloak | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 wishing | punct |
| 12 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 throw | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 throw | nsubj |
| 17 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 throw | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 shoulders | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 throw | obl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 wish | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 wish | mark |
| 26 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 have | xcomp |
| 27 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 wish | iobj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 30 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 place | amod |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wish | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 twinkling | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 twinkling | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 twinkling | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 twinkling | det |
| 36 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 eye | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 eye | det |
| 39 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 twinkling | nmod |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 there | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 there | cop |
| 42 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 twinkling | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the cloak | the twinkling of a eye | with you | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cloak=Value in twinkling=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | present | cloak | a wishing cloak | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | present | you | cloak | your shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 4 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wish | to-infinitive | you not said here | yourself | a certain place | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | present | you | the twinkling of a eye not said here | there property | tree rules |
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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