The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 30
And she answered at once ‘I want you to take me and my husband and my servants and this beautiful house and set us down on the other side of the Red Sea, but my daughter and her husband are to stay behind.’
Who acts: Queen, I, you, daughter · What happens: answer, want, take, set down, be, stay · To what, where: you, me, us, other side
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 (Queen, I, you, daughter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 answered | obl |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 want | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 want | xcomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 husband | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 me | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 servants | cc |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 servants | nmod:poss |
| 18 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 me | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 house | cc |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 house | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 house | amod |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 me | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | conj |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 set | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 side | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 side | amod |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Sea | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Sea | det |
| 33 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Sea | compound |
| 34 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 side | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 are | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 are | cc |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 38 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 are | nsubj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 husband | cc |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 husband | nmod:poss |
| 41 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 daughter | conj |
| 42 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 stay | mark |
| 44 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 are | xcomp |
| 45 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 44 stay | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 4 | set down | infinitive | you not said here | us | the other side of the Red Sea | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 5 | does | present | my daughter and Queen's husband | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stay | to-infinitive | my daughter and Queen's husband not said here | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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