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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

detobjcaseoblpunctnsubjcopdetcompoundpunctoblpunctccadvmodnsubjadvclobjcasenmod:possoblnsubjparataxisadvmodmarkxcompiobjcasedetamodoblpunctcccasedetoblcasedetnmodnsubjcopacl:relclpunctrootTakeVERBtheDETcloakNOUNwithADPyouPRON;PUNCTitPRONisAUXaDETwishingNOUN-PUNCTcloakNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVyouPRONthrowVERBitPRONonADPyourPRONshouldersNOUNyouPRONhaveVERBonlyADVtoPARTwishVERByourselfPRONatADPaDETcertainADJplaceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJinADPtheDETtwinklingNOUNofADPanDETeyeNOUNyouPRONareAUXthereADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TaketakeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 cloakdet
3cloakcloakNOUNNumber=Sing1 Takeobj
4withwithADP_5 youcase
5youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs1 Takeobl
6;;PUNCT_12 cloakpunct
7ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 cloaknsubj
8isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 cloakcop
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 cloakdet
10wishingwishingNOUNNumber=Sing12 cloakcompound
11--PUNCT_10 wishingpunct
12cloakcloakNOUNNumber=Sing1 Takeobl
13,,PUNCT_23 havepunct
14andandCCONJ_23 havecc
15whenwhenADVPronType=Int17 throwadvmod
16youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs17 thrownsubj
17throwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 haveadvcl
18ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 throwobj
19ononADP_21 shoulderscase
20youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 shouldersnmod:poss
21shouldersshoulderNOUNNumber=Plur17 throwobl
22youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs23 havensubj
23havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Takeparataxis
24onlyonlyADV_26 wishadvmod
25totoPART_26 wishmark
26wishwishVERBVerbForm=Inf23 havexcomp
27yourselfyourselfPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes26 wishiobj
28atatADP_31 placecase
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 placedet
30certaincertainADJDegree=Pos31 placeamod
31placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing26 wishobl
32,,PUNCT_36 twinklingpunct
33andandCCONJ_36 twinklingcc
34ininADP_36 twinklingcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 twinklingdet
36twinklingtwinklingNOUNNumber=Sing1 Takeobl
37ofofADP_39 eyecase
38anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 eyedet
39eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing36 twinklingnmod
40youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs42 therensubj
41arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin42 therecop
42therethereADVPronType=Dem36 twinklingacl:relcl
43..PUNCT_1 Takepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takeimperativeyou not said herethe cloakthe twinkling of a eyewith youvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cloak=Value in twinkling=Location
2is apresentcloaka wishing cloaktree rules
3throwpresentyoucloakyour shouldersvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination
4havepresentyoutree rules
5wishto-infinitiveyou not said hereyourselfa certain placevn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme
6ispresentyouthe twinkling of a eye not said herethere propertytree 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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