The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 104

‘Put your hand into my right ear,’ said the horse, ‘and throw the brush you will find there behind you.’

Who acts: you · What happens: put, say, throw, find · To what, where: hand, right ear, horse, brush · 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 (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 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	right	right	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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 throw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 throw	cc
17	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 brush	det
19	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throw	obj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 find	aux
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 brush	acl:relcl
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 find	advmod
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 find	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 throw	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	infinitive		your hand	my right ear		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	say speech: assert	past		the horse			tree rules
3	throw	infinitive		the brush			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme
4	find	future	you	the brush not said here	there	behind you	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Topic

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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