English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 25
“Dear Brother,--Take the bearer and put her to death immediately.
Who acts: Dear Brother · What happens: take, put · To what, where: bearer, girl
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 (Dear Brother), 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 | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Brother | amod |
| 3 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brother | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 6 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bearer | det |
| 8 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Take | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 10 put | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | Dear Brother | the bearer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put in a quote | past | Dear Brother not said here | girl | to death; immediately property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
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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