The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 27
Take the silver wreath and knock at the windows of the goddess Venus.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, knock · To what, where: silver wreath
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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wreath | det |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wreath | compound |
| 4 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knock | cc |
| 6 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 windows | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 windows | det |
| 9 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 knock | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Venus | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Venus | det |
| 12 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Venus | compound |
| 13 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 windows | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | 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 silver wreath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme | ||||
| 2 | knock | infinitive | you not said here | at the windows of the goddess Venus | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient |
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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