The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 89

Take me under your arm and put me down out of doors, and I’ll hunt for it.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, put down, hunt · To what, where: me, arm, doors

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, I), 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	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 arm	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arm	nmod:poss
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 put	cc
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt
10	out	out	ADP	_	12 doors	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 doors	case
12	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hunt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hunt	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 hunt	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hunt	aux
17	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hunt	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here		me	your arm		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	put down	infinitive	you not said here	me		doors		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme out door=Destination
3	hunt	future	I				for arm	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=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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