The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 15
Then take down the sword gently, and quickly give the monster a blow on his tail with it.
Who acts: you · What happens: take down, give · To what, where: sword, blow, monster
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 take | advmod |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 take | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 6 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 take | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 9 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 give | advmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monster | det |
| 12 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 blow | det |
| 14 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 tail | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tail | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blow | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | imperative | you not said here | the sword | then | gently property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | a blow | the monster | with sword; quickly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent monster=Recipient blow=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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