The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 9
‘Go back,’ she said, ‘to the castle, and bury this little diamond close to the door.
Who acts: Frog · What happens: go back, say, bury · To what, where: little diamond · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Frog), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 castle | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 castle | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bury | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bury | cc |
| 15 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 diamond | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 diamond | amod |
| 18 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bury | obj |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bury | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 close | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | infinitive | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Frog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bury | infinitive | Frog not said here | this little diamond | close property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme |
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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