The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 60
Then get on the hay-stack, put the ropes round it, and harness the horse to the ropes.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, put, harness · To what, where: hay stack, ropes, horse
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 get | advmod |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 stack | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stack | det |
| 5 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stack | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hay | punct |
| 7 | stack | stack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ropes | det |
| 11 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 harness | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 harness | cc |
| 16 | harness | harness | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 harness | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ropes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ropes | det |
| 21 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 harness | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | the hay stack | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on stack=Source | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | you not said here | the ropes | round stack | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rope=Goal | |||
| 3 | harness | infinitive | you not said here | the horse | to the ropes | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to rope=Co-Patient |
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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