The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 34
‘Well, tie the rope round my waist!
Who acts: you · What happens: tie · To what, where: rope
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 (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 | _ | 4 tie | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 tie | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rope | det |
| 6 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tie | obj |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 waist | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 waist | nmod:poss |
| 9 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tie | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 tie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | imperative | you not said here | the rope | round my waist | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |
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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