The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 14
Just send me a message and you’ll see that I shall be back in next to no time.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: send, see, be · To what, where: message, me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 send | advmod |
| 2 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 send | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 message | det |
| 5 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 send | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 send | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 back | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 back | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 back | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 back | cop |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 next | case |
| 16 | next | next | ADV | _ | 14 back | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 send | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | a message | me | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination message=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | future | you | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | I | back property | tree rules |
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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