The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 33
Cross that, and you will see a closet, out of which you must take a tunic, and bring it back to me.’
Who acts: you · What happens: cross, see, take, bring back · To what, where: that, closet, tunic, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. 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 | Cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Cross | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Cross | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 closet | det |
| 9 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 take | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tunic | det |
| 18 | tunic | tunic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bring | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Cross | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 bring | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cross | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | imperative | you not said here | that | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | future | you | a closet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer closet=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | must | you | a tunic | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tunic=Theme out which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | bring back | infinitive | you not said here | tunic | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=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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