The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 20

You had better take the body to the storehouse.

Who acts: You · What happens: have, take · To what, where: body, storehouse

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	xcomp
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 storehouse	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 storehouse	det
9	storehouse	storehouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	You					good property	tree rules
2	take	infinitive	You not said here	the body		the storehouse			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to storehouse=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: «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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