The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 90
Get down and pick them up.’
Who acts: you · What happens: get down, pick up · To what, where: women
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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Get | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 pick | cc |
| 4 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pick | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 pick | compound:prt |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | imperative | you not said here | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pick up | infinitive | you not said here | women = woman | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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