The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 44

The following morning the ogress told the young man that he must take all the feathers out of her pillows and spread them to dry in the sun. But if one feather was missing when she came back at night his head should pay for it.”

Who acts: ogress, man, one feather, head · What happens: follow, tell, take, spread, dry, be · To what, where: young man, feathers, pillows, sun. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, man, one feather, head), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ogress	det
5	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 take	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 feathers	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feathers	det
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 take	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 pillows	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pillows	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pillows	nmod:poss
20	pillows	pillow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 take	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spread	cc
22	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spread	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 dry	mark
25	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 spread	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 sun.	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun.	det
28	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dry	obl
29	But	but	CCONJ	_	34 missing	cc
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 missing	mark
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 feather	nummod
32	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 missing	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 missing	cop
34	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 spread	parataxis
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 came	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 came	nsubj
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 missing	parataxis
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 night	case
40	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 head	nmod:poss
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pay	nsubj
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 pay	aux
44	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 came	conj
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 pay	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the ogress		the young man		morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen	must	man	all feathers		ogress's pillows			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out pillow=Initial_Location
4	spread	past	the ogress not said here	feathers = feather					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
5	dry	to-infinitive	the ogress not said here			the sun.			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	one feather					missing property	tree rules
7	come back	past	ogress				night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	pay	should	man's head					for sun.	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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