The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 26
The King said, ‘See if you can catch it alive, and then fasten it to the cart, and we will take it with us.’
Who acts: King, you, we · What happens: say, see, catch, fasten, take · To what, where: skin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 See | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 See | punct |
| 6 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 catch | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 catch | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 catch | aux |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 See | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 catch | obj |
| 12 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 catch | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fasten | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fasten | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 fasten | advmod |
| 16 | fasten | fasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fasten | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 cart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cart | det |
| 20 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fasten | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 take | cc |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 take | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 take | aux |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | catch a condition, not said to happen | can | you | skin | alive property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | fasten | infinitive | the King not said here | skin | then | to the cart | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to cart=Co-Patient | ||
| 5 | take | future | we | skin | with us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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