The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 17
‘Take the copper wreath, and go with it to that little hill over there.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, go · To what, where: copper wreath, little hill
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wreath | det |
| 4 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wreath | compound |
| 5 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hill | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 hill | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hill | amod |
| 14 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 there | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 go | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the copper wreath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | that little hill; there | with wreath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location |
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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