The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 52
Extinguish the flames with the sand that you earned in payment of your faithful service.’
Who acts: you, your · What happens: extinguish, earn, pay, service · To what, where: flames, sand, payment, faithful service
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, your), 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 | Extinguish | extinguish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flames | det |
| 3 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Extinguish | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sand | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sand | det |
| 6 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Extinguish | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 earned | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 earned | nsubj |
| 9 | earned | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sand | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 payment | case |
| 11 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 earned | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 service | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 service | nmod:poss |
| 14 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 service | amod |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 payment | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Extinguish | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Extinguish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extinguish | imperative | you not said here | the flames | with the sand | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent flame=Patient with sand=Instrument | |||
| 2 | earn | past | you | the sand | payment of your faithful service | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 3 | pay | your faithful service | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | service | your | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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