The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 53
‘Go and get them from the closet which is on the second story.’
Who acts: you, closet · What happens: go, get, be · To what, where: shoes, closet, second story
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, closet), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 get | cc |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 closet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 closet | det |
| 8 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 story | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 story | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 story | amod |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 closet | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | you not said here | shoes = shoe | the closet | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from closet=Source | |||
| 3 | is | present | the closet | the second story | tree rules |
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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