The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 13

You must cut the branch on which it is sitting, and bring it back to me without delay.

Who acts: You, branch · What happens: cut, sit, bring back · To what, where: branch, me

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, branch), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux
3	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 branch	det
5	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sitting	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sitting	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sitting	aux
10	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cut	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bring	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bring	cc
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bring	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bring	obl
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 delay	case
19	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cut	must	You	the branch			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Product
2	sit	present · progressive	branch				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
3	bring back	infinitive	You not said here	branch	me	without delay	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination

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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