The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 57
The instant you have thrown down the hay at the top, it will take root again from below.
Who acts: it · What happens: throw down, take · To what, where: instant, top, root
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 instant | det |
| 2 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 hay | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hay | det |
| 8 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thrown | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thrown | conj |
| 16 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 below | case |
| 19 | below | below | ADV | _ | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | present · perfect · passive | the instant | the top | down the hay | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination hay=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | future | it | root | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent root=Theme from below=Initial_Location |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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