The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 117
‘Well, then, take it, you brat,’ said the old hag, ‘and be off with you, and make haste with the water.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, brat, say, be, make · To what, where: piece, old hag, haste · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). 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 | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 take | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brat | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 brat | nsubj |
| 10 | brat | brat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hag | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hag | amod |
| 16 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ‘ | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hag | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 off | cc |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 off | cop |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 off | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 make | cc |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | conj |
| 27 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | piece | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | brat | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old hag and ‘ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hag=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | with you; off property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | you not said here | haste | with the water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
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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