The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 33
For me you shall bring nothing but an old tinder-box which my grandmother forgot last time she was down there.’
Who acts: me, grandmother · What happens: bring, forget, be · To what, where: nothing, last time
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, grandmother), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 box | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 box | amod |
| 10 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 box | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tinder | punct |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | conj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 forgot | obj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | nsubj |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nothing | conj |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 there | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 there | cop |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 there | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | shall | me | nothing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | my grandmother | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | grandmother | last time not said here | down, there 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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