The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 18
‘Do you really imagine, brave son of the earth, that you can pluck an apple so easily from the Tree of the Sun?
Who acts: you · What happens: imagine, pluck · To what, where: apple, Tree
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). 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 | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 imagine | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 imagine | advmod |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 imagine | vocative |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pluck | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 pluck | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 pluck | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 pluck | aux |
| 16 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 imagine | parataxis |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 apple | det |
| 18 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pluck | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 easily | advmod |
| 20 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 16 pluck | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Tree | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tree | det |
| 23 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pluck | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Sun | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sun | det |
| 26 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Tree | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | present · do-support | you | brave son of the earth vocative | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | pluck | can | you | a apple | the Tree of the Sun | easily property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from tree=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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