The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 70
I also lay this belt beside you, to put on when you awaken; it will keep you from growing faint with hunger.’
Who acts: I, you, clew · What happens: lay, put on, awaken, keep, grow · To what, where: belt, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, clew), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 belt | det |
| 5 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 awaken | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 awaken | nsubj |
| 14 | awaken | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 keep | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 keep | aux |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lay | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | obj |
| 20 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 21 growing | mark |
| 21 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 keep | xcomp |
| 22 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 growing | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 hunger | case |
| 24 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 growing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | I | this belt | beside you | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent belt=Theme beside you=Destination | |||
| 2 | put on | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | awaken | present | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | future | clew | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow | gerund | you not said here | with hunger; faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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