The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 159
Kick him off, and let him break in pieces on the ground, and come and join us.’
Who acts: you, monster · What happens: kick off, let, break, come, join · To what, where: monster, pieces, us
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, monster), 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 | Kick | kick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Kick | obj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Kick | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kick | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pieces | case |
| 10 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 break | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pieces | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Kick | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 join | cc |
| 18 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | conj |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 join | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kick | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick off | imperative | you not said here | monster | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | monster | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | infinitive | monster not said here | pieces on the ground | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | join | infinitive | us | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
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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