The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 104
‘Take a good handful of the herb with you, and let us go to your rooms.
Who acts: you, us · What happens: take, let, go · To what, where: good handful, us, rooms
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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, us), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 handful | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 handful | amod |
| 5 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 herb | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 herb | det |
| 8 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handful | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 rooms | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | a good handful of the herb | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | us not said here | your rooms | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=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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