The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 66
Take the golden cage in one hand, and leave the bird in the old cage where he is, and bring that away too.’
Who acts: you, hero · What happens: take, leave, be, bring away · To what, where: golden cage, one hand, bird, old cage, that
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, hero), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cage | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cage | amod |
| 4 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hand | nummod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 leave | cc |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cage | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cage | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cage | amod |
| 16 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 is | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 is | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cage | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bring | cc |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 bring | obj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 bring | advmod |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 bring | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the golden cage | one hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cage=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | the bird | the old cage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in cage=Location | |||
| 3 | be | present | hero | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring away | infinitive | you not said here | that | away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=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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