The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 14
And this you must also do in order to deceive the King: you must slip into his bed-chamber very softly, and stop up all the bells which are round his bed with cotton.
Who acts: this, you, bells · What happens: do, deceive, slip, stop up, be · To what, where: King, bed chamber, bells
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you, bells), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 deceive | mark |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 in | fixed |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 deceive | mark |
| 10 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 deceive | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 slip | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 slip | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 slip | aux |
| 16 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | parataxis |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 chamber | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chamber | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 bed | punct |
| 21 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slip | obl |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 softly | advmod |
| 23 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 16 slip | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stop | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stop | cc |
| 26 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 slip | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 stop | compound:prt |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 bells | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bells | det |
| 30 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stop | obj |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 bed | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 bed | cop |
| 33 | round | round | ADP | _ | 35 bed | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bed | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bells | acl:relcl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 cotton | case |
| 37 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bed | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | deceive | to-infinitive | this not said here | the King | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slip | must | you | King's bed chamber | softly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | stop up | infinitive | you not said here | all bells | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bell=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is | present | all bells | round King's bed; with cotton | tree rules |
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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