English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 22
Take this letter to my brother in Scarborough, and you will be settled for life.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, settle · To what, where: letter, brother, you
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Scarborough | case |
| 8 | Scarborough | Scarborough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 settled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 settled | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 settled | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 settled | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 settled | aux:pass |
| 14 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Take | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 settled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this letter | my brother in Scarborough | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to brother=Destination | |||
| 2 | settle | future · passive | you | for life | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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