The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 22

I will never set you to herd cattle again, henceforward I will give you something easier to do.”

Who acts: I · What happens: not set, herd, give, do · To what, where: you, cattle, something

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	4 set	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 set	advmod
4	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 set	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 herd	mark
7	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	xcomp
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 herd	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 herd	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
11	henceforward	henceforward	ADV	_	14 give	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 give	obj
17	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 something	amod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 easier	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not set	future	I	you				tree rules
2	herd	to-infinitive	I not said here	cattle		again		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient
3	give	future	I	something	you		henceforward property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme
4	do	to-infinitive	I not said here					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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