The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 63
‘You must do me the favour,’ replied the fish, ‘to take a scale from my body, and keep it carefully.
Who acts: You · What happens: do, reply, take, keep · To what, where: favour, me, fish, scale, body
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 favour | det |
| 7 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 scale | det |
| 18 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 body | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 body | nmod:poss |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 keep | cc |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 keep | obj |
| 26 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 24 keep | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must | You | the favour | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the fish | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | a scale | my body | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scale=Theme from body=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | scale | carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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