The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 52
Place yourself at the window with your sisters; I will ride by and throw you the silver apple.
Who acts: I · What happens: ride by, throw · To what, where: silver apple, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Place | nmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Place | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sisters | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 window | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 ride | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ride | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ride | aux |
| 12 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Place | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 ride | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 throw | cc |
| 15 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ride | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 throw | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 apple | det |
| 18 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 apple | amod |
| 19 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 throw | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride by | future | I | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw | infinitive | I not said here | the silver apple | you | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination apple=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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