The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 67
Go instantly and seek her, and when she is found implore the gift of another stone with similar powers.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, seek, find, implore, gift · To what, where: Rosalie, gift, stone
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), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 seek | cc |
| 4 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seek | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 implore | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 implore | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 found | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 implore | advcl |
| 12 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gift | det |
| 14 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 implore | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gift | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 powers | case |
| 19 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 powers | amod |
| 20 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 implore | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | instantly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | Rosalie | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | present · passive | Rosalie | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | implore | infinitive | you not said here | the gift of another stone | with similar powers | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient | |||
| 5 | gift | another stone | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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