The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 115
‘Pull a feather from my tail, and put it in the fire, and if you want me I will come to you, wherever I am.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: pull, put, want, come · To what, where: feather, tail, fire, me, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 2 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feather | det |
| 4 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pull | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 tail | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pull | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Pull | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 want | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 want | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Pull | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 come | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 am | punct |
| 27 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 am | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 am | nsubj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Pull | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | a feather | my tail | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from tail=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | you not said here | feather | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in fire=Destination | |||
| 3 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | future | I | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=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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