The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 27
‘Little kitchen-maid, little kitchen-maid, what will you take for your mouse-carriage?’
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: Little kitchen maid
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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), 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 | _ | 5 maid | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maid | amod |
| 3 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maid | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 kitchen | punct |
| 5 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 maid | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maid | amod |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 maid | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kitchen | punct |
| 10 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maid | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 take | obj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 maid | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 carriage | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carriage | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 mouse | punct |
| 20 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 maid | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 maid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | you | Little kitchen maid and little kitchen maid | for your mouse carriage | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Theme for carriage=Beneficiary |
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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