The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 32
‘Mount on my back,’ said the little hare, ‘and I will conduct you.’
Who acts: Mount, I · What happens: say, conduct · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mount, I), 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 Mount | punct |
| 2 | Mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mount | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mount | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mount | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hare | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hare | amod |
| 11 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | INTJ | _ | 8 said | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 conduct | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 conduct | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 conduct | aux |
| 17 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 conduct | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 conduct | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 conduct | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mount on my back | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | conduct | future | I | you | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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