The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 51

Jump on my back and I will take you there.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: jump, take · To what, where: back, you

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 (you, 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	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 back	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jump	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 take	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Jump	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 take	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Jump	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	imperative	you not said here			my back			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
2	take	future	I		you	there			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination

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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