The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 53
Take it in your hand, but if they ask you who I am, say that you do not know.’
Who acts: you, sisters, I · What happens: take, ask, be, say, not know · To what, where: apple, hand, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, sisters, 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 say | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 who | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 who | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 say | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | apple | your hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | sisters = sister | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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