Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 17

I want to go out and milk the cow; and you must see that they do not burn while I am gone."

Who acts: I, you, cakes · What happens: want, go out, see, not burn, be · To what, where: cow

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, cakes), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 milk	cc
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 burn	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 burn	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 burn	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 burn	advmod
19	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	advcl
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 gone	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 gone	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	cop
23	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 burn	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the cow	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	must	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not burn	present · do-support	cakes = cake			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	I		gone property	tree rules

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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