The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 12
He said, ‘You must come again, and bring a knife with you to scrape a hole in the iron.’
Who acts: king, You · What happens: say, come, bring, scrape · To what, where: knife, hole, iron · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knife | det |
| 13 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 scrape | mark |
| 17 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bring | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scrape | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 iron | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 iron | det |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hole | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | must | You | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | You not said here | a knife | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | |||
| 4 | scrape | to-infinitive | You not said here | a hole | the iron | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in iron=Trajectory |
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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