The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 51
Why, you have got a whole basket-load of it on your back.’
Who acts: you · What happens: get · To what, where: whole basket load, back
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 load | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 load | amod |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 load | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 basket | punct |
| 10 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 load | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | you | a whole basket load of load | your back | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent load=Theme on back=Source |
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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