The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 58
‘Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.’
Who acts: leg, you · What happens: do, go, wist, bring · To what, where: twist, corner, large old kist, me
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 (leg, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 toad | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 toad | amod |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 toad | amod |
| 4 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 leg | nmod:poss |
| 6 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doth | nsubj |
| 7 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 toad | acl:relcl |
| 8 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 10 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 doth | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 corner | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 corner | det |
| 13 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Go | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 wist | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 wist | nsubj |
| 17 | wist | wist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 corner | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bring | cc |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 Go | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kist | det |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 kist | amod |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 kist | amod |
| 26 | kist | kist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 toad | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 toad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | leg | twist | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the corner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | wist | present | you | of the corner | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | the large old kist | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kist=Theme to i=Destination |
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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