The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 197

‘Cast your eyes down to the foot of the mountain.’

Who acts: you · What happens: cast down · To what, where: eyes, foot

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), 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 Cast	punct
2	Cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Cast	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 Cast	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foot	det
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cast	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mountain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foot	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Cast	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast down	imperative	you not said here	your eyes		the foot of the mountain		down property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to foot=Destination

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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