The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 96
You must bring me back a little dog that will go comfortably into a walnut-shell.’
Who acts: You, little dog · What happens: bring back, go · To what, where: little dog, me, walnut shell
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, little dog), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 bring | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dog | amod |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dog | acl:relcl |
| 12 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 shell | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shell | det |
| 15 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shell | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 walnut | punct |
| 17 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | must | You | a little dog | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination dog=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | future | a little dog | a walnut shell | comfortably property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into shell=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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