The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 23
But go, generous stranger; bring back Rosalie if you can, and live happy with her ever after in this country, of which I now declare you heir.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: go, bring back, live, declare, heir · To what, where: Rosalie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 go | cc |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stranger | punct |
| 4 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stranger | amod |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | vocative |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 9 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 can | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 can | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 live | cc |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 live | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 happy | obl |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 live | advmod |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 country | det |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 declare | punct |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 declare | obl |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 declare | nsubj |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 declare | advmod |
| 29 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 heir | nsubj |
| 31 | heir | heir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 declare | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | generous stranger vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring back | infinitive | you not said here | Rosalie | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument rosalie=Destination | ||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | you not said here | after this country; ever | happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | declare speech: other | present | I | now | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | heir | present | you | 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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