The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 98
Then you must go all round it, giving a tap here and there on the walls to look as if you had just finished it.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, give, look, finish · To what, where: palace, tap, walls
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 it | advmod |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 go | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tap | det |
| 11 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 giving | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 there | cc |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 here | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 walls | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 walls | det |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 giving | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 look | mark |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 giving | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 finished | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 finished | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 finished | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 finished | aux |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 finished | advmod |
| 25 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 look | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 finished | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | you | palace | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round it=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | you not said here | a tap | the walls; here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent tap=Theme on wall=Asset | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | finish | past · perfect | you | palace | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
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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