The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 17
And dashing open the door of the fifth stall, he told the goblins inside that they must go and drink up the brook, and catch the fish.
Who acts: master, brook · What happens: dash, open, tell, go, drink up, catch · To what, where: door, goblins, brook, fish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, brook), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 open | cc |
| 2 | dashing | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 open | nsubj |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stall | det |
| 8 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stall | amod |
| 9 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goblins | det |
| 14 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 told | iobj |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drink | cc |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 drink | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 brook | det |
| 24 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drink | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 catch | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 catch | cc |
| 27 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 open | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fish | det |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 catch | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | the door of the fifth stall | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | master | the goblins | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent goblin=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | must | brook | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drink up | infinitive | brook not said here | the brook | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brook=Patient | ||||
| 6 | catch | infinitive | the fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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