The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 76
Choose the handsomest of all the horses, leap quickly on its back, and come to me as fast as you can.
Who acts: you · What happens: choose, leap, come · To what, where: handsomest, back, me
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 | Choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 handsomest | det |
| 3 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Choose | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 horses | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 horses | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horses | det |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 handsomest | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leap | punct |
| 9 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Choose | conj |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 leap | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leap | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Choose | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 fast | advmod |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 come | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 can | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fast | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | imperative | you not said here | the handsomest | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handsome=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leap | infinitive | you not said here | stable's back | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | infinitive | you not said here | me | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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