The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 61
When you are ready, climb up the hay-stack and begin to count one, two, three.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, climb up, begin, count · To what, where: hay stack, one
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 climb | punct |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 climb | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stack | det |
| 9 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stack | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hay | punct |
| 11 | stack | stack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 begin | cc |
| 13 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 climb | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 count | mark |
| 15 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 begin | xcomp |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 count | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 two | punct |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 one | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 three | punct |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 one | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | climb up | infinitive | the hay stack | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stack=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | present | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | count | to-infinitive | one | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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