The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 40
Now take me home, and cut me into six pieces.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, cut · To what, where: me, six pieces
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 take | advmod |
| 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 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cut | cc |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cut | iobj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 10 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pieces | nummod |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cut | obl |
| 12 | . | . | 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 | now | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||
| 2 | cut | past | you not said here | me | six pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent i=Material into piece=Product |
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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