The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 99
Bake your cake, and I myself will lay it before Prince Milan.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bake, lay · To what, where: cake
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, I), 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 | Bake | bake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cake | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bake | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | aux |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bake | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 Milan | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Milan | compound |
| 13 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bake | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | imperative | you not said here | your cake | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | ||||
| 2 | lay | future | I | cake | before Prince Milan | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before milan=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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