English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 16
“Go you, and bring the best of 'em.”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, bring · To what, where: you, best
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. 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 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Go | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bring | cc |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 best | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 bring | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 'em | case |
| 10 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 best | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | 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 | you | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the best | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent good=Theme |
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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