The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 72
Put it in a flower-pot, and then you will see something happen.’
Who acts: you, something · What happens: put, see, happen · To what, where: kind, flower pot, something
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, something), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pot | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 see | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Put | advcl |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | kind | a flower pot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pot=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | future | you | something | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | happen | infinitive | something not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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