The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 72
‘Take this bagful of bread-crumbs and this live hare.
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: bagful
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bagful | det |
| 4 | bagful | bagful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 crumbs | case |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crumbs | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bread | punct |
| 8 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bagful | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hare | cc |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 hare | det |
| 11 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hare | amod |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crumbs | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this bagful of bread crumbs and this live hare | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagful=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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