English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 27

“Go and open the door this instant.”

Who acts: you · What happens: go, open · To what, where: door

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 open	cc
4	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	obj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 instant	det
8	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the door					vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent door=Theme instant=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: «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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