The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 22
Take this bow and arrow and kill every beast you see with them, and be sure you spare no living creature.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, arrow, kill, see, be, spare · To what, where: bow, beast, living creature
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bow | det |
| 3 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 arrow | cc |
| 5 | arrow | arrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kill | cc |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrow | conj |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 beast | det |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beast | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sure | cc |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 spare | nsubj |
| 19 | spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 creature | det |
| 21 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creature | amod |
| 22 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spare | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this bow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrow | present | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill | present | you not said here | every beast | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present | you | every beast not said here | with beasts = beast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | infinitive | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | spare | present | you | no living creature | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent creature=Asset |
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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