The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 46
‘Climb up the tree quick and catch the pike, and we’ll cook it for dinner.’
Who acts: you, we · What happens: climb up, catch, cook · To what, where: tree, pike
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | _ | 2 Climb | punct |
| 2 | Climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Climb | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Climb | obj |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Climb | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 catch | cc |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Climb | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pike | det |
| 10 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cook | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cook | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 cook | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cook | aux |
| 15 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Climb | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cook | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 dinner | case |
| 18 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cook | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Climb | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | imperative | you not said here | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | you not said here | the pike | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cook | future | we | tree | for dinner | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for dinner=Beneficiary |
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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