The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 39
‘Take me to your palace,’ answered the King; ‘there you can at least keep me in a cage safe from cats and swords.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, answer, keep · To what, where: me, palace, King, least
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 palace | nmod:poss |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 keep | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 there | punct |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 keep | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 keep | aux |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 least | case |
| 18 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 keep | obl |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Take | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 cage | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cage | det |
| 23 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obl |
| 24 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 keep | xcomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 cats | case |
| 26 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 safe | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 swords | cc |
| 28 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cats | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | me | your palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | you not said here | the King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | keep | can | you | me | least; there | in a cage; safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme at least=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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