The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 73
Take off your clothes and spread them on the path which leads from here to the castle.
Who acts: you, path · What happens: take off, spread, lead · To what, where: clothes, path
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, path), 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 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Take | compound:prt |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spread | cc |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spread | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 path | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 path | det |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 leads | nsubj |
| 12 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 path | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 here | case |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 leads | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 here | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | imperative | you not said here | your clothes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | you not said here | clothes | the path | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on path=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | present | the path | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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