The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 112

“I should not be surprised if the tasks I set you were too difficult, and that you were tired of them,” said the herdsman next morning; “but to-day I have something quite easy for you to do.

Who acts: herdsman, tasks, you · What happens: not be, set, be, say, do · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdsman, tasks, 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	_	6 surprised	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 surprised	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 surprised	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 surprised	cop
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 difficult	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tasks	det
9	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 difficult	nsubj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 set	nsubj
11	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tasks	acl:relcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 set	obj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 difficult	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 difficult	advmod
15	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surprised	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 tired	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tired	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tired	cop
21	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tired	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 tired	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 herdsman	det
28	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obj
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 morning	amod
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl:unmarked
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 easy	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 easy	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 have	cc
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 day	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 to	punct
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obl
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
38	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 easy	aux
39	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 have	obj
40	quite	quite	ADV	_	41 easy	advmod
41	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surprised	advcl
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 do	mark
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 do	nsubj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 do	mark
45	do	do	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 easy	ccomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	should	the herdsman = herdsman			surprised property	tree rules
2	set in a quote	past	the herdsman = herdsman	you			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the tasks			difficult property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	you			of tasks = task; tired property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the herdsman		morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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