The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 75
Then you must instantly seize your bag, and scatter the bread-crumbs among them.
Who acts: you · What happens: seize, scatter · To what, where: bag, bread crumbs
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seize | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seize | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 seize | aux |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 seize | advmod |
| 5 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bag | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seize | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 scatter | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scatter | cc |
| 10 | scatter | scatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seize | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crumbs | det |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crumbs | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bread | punct |
| 14 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scatter | obj |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 scatter | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | must | you | your bag | then | instantly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||
| 2 | scatter | infinitive | you not said here | the bread crumbs | among crumbs = crumb | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme among they=Destination |
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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