The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 59
‘If you can find the little kitchen-maid, bring her to me at once.’
Who acts: you · What happens: find, bring · To what, where: little kitchen maid, Fiordelisa, me
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 find | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maid | det |
| 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 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 find | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 bring | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | can | you | the little kitchen maid | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | Fiordelisa | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to i=Destination |
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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