The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 73

Take this tiny grain of sand, and put it into the ground as close as you can to the gate of the castle.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, put · To what, where: tiny grain, grain, ground

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 grain	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grain	amod
4	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sand	case
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grain	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 close	advmod
15	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 put	advcl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 can	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 can	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 close	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 gate	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gate	det
21	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 castle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 castle	det
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gate	nmod
25	.	.	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	this tiny grain of sand					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
2	put	infinitive	you not said here	grain		the ground			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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