The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 18
‘Build me a castle with laths of gold and tiles of diamond, and the furniture all of silver and gold.’
Who acts: you · What happens: build · To what, where: castle, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. 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 Build | punct |
| 2 | Build | build | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Build | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Build | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 laths | case |
| 7 | laths | lath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Build | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laths | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tiles | cc |
| 11 | tiles | tile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gold | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 diamond | case |
| 13 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tiles | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 furniture | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 furniture | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 furniture | det |
| 17 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Build | obl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 furniture | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 silver | case |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 all | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gold | cc |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 silver | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Build | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | imperative | you not said here | a castle | me | with laths of gold and tiles of diamond; the furniture obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary castle=Product |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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