The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 38
‘Leave the house at once, and go and beg your bread among strangers;’ and as Martin did not dare to contradict her, he called Schurka and Waska and started off with them to the nearest village in search of work.
Who acts: you, Martin · What happens: leave, go, beg, not dare, not contradict, call · To what, where: house, bread, mother, Schurka, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Martin), 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 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Leave | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Leave | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Leave | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beg | cc |
| 11 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bread | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beg | obj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 strangers | case |
| 15 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beg | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dare | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 Martin | case |
| 20 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 dare | obl |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dare | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 dare | advmod |
| 23 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Leave | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 contradict | mark |
| 25 | contradict | contradict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 dare | xcomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 contradict | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 called | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 called | nsubj |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Leave | parataxis |
| 30 | Schurka | Schurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 called | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Waska | cc |
| 32 | Waska | Waska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Schurka | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 started | cc |
| 34 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 called | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 started | compound:prt |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 started | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 village | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 village | det |
| 40 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 village | amod |
| 41 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 started | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 search | case |
| 43 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 village | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 work | case |
| 45 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 search | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | infinitive | your bread | among strangers | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not dare | past · do-support | you not said here | as Martin | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not contradict | to-infinitive | you not said here | mother | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | call | past | Martin | Schurka and Waska | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent schurka=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | start off | past | Martin not said here | with strangers = stranger; to the nearest village in search of work | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with they=Subeventuality | ||||
| 8 | search | work | nom search «act 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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