The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 100

‘Put your hand into my left ear,’ said he, ‘and take out a sharp stone, which you must throw behind you.’

Who acts: hand · What happens: put, say, take out, throw · To what, where: hand, left ear, sharp stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), 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 Put	punct
2	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Put	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 ear	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ear	nmod:poss
7	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ear	amod
8	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 he	punct
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 take	cc
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 take	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stone	det
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stone	amod
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 throw	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 throw	nsubj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 throw	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 throw	aux
25	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	conj
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 throw	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	infinitive		your hand	my left ear		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	say speech: assert	past	hand				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take out	infinitive		a sharp stone			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4	throw	must				behind you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent behind you=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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