The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 49
‘Bring a horse at once; they shan’t escape me.’
Who acts: you, wretches · What happens: bring, not escape · To what, where: horse, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wretches), 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 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Bring | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 escape | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 escape | nsubj |
| 9 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 escape | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 escape | advmod |
| 11 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Bring | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 escape | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | a horse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not escape | wretches = wretch | me | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location |
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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