The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 11
Take the bridle from my neck, and try to catch the Welwa with it.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, try, catch · To what, where: bridle, neck, Welwa
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bridle | det |
| 3 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 neck | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 neck | nmod:poss |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 try | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 try | cc |
| 9 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 catch | mark |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 try | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Welwa | det |
| 13 | Welwa | Welwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 catch | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 catch | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the bridle | my neck | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme from neck=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | try | infinitive | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Welwa | with Welwa | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welwa=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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