The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 60
Don’t behave like the cow that kicks the pail over after it has filled it with milk, but continue your journey with me, and when we get to the capital you can sell me to the King as a servant girl.’
Who acts: you, cow, we, your · What happens: not behave, kick over, fill, continue, get, sell · To what, where: pail, journey, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cow, we, your), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 behave | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 behave | advmod |
| 3 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 cow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cow | det |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 behave | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 kicks | nsubj |
| 8 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cow | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pail | det |
| 10 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kicks | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 kicks | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 filled | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | aux |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 kicks | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 filled | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 milk | case |
| 18 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 continue | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 continue | cc |
| 21 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 behave | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 journey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 continue | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 continue | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sell | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sell | cc |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 get | advmod |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 get | nsubj |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sell | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 capital | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 capital | det |
| 33 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 get | obl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 sell | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 sell | aux |
| 36 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 behave | parataxis |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 sell | iobj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 King | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 King | det |
| 40 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 sell | obl |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 girl | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 girl | det |
| 43 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 girl | compound |
| 44 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sell | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 behave | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 behave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not behave | imperative · do-support | you not said here | like the cow | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like cow=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | kick over | present | the cow | the pail | over property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent pail=Patient | |||
| 3 | fill | present · perfect · passive | pail | with milk | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | continue | infinitive | you not said here | your journey | with me | tree rules | |||
| 5 | get | present | we | to the capital result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to capital=Result | ||||
| 6 | sell | can | you | me | to the King; as a servant girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to king=Recipient | |||
| 7 | journey | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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