The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 42

One day, just before Christmas, he said to his wife: “Prepare everything for a great feast, to-morrow we will take things with us to the farm that the shepherds there may make merry.”

Who acts: shepherd, we, shepherds · What happens: say, prepare, take, make · To what, where: wife, everything, things, morrow, merry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, we, shepherds), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Christmas	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 Christmas	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 Christmas	case
6	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 day	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 wife	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Prepare	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Prepare	punct
15	Prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 Prepare	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 feast	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 feast	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feast	amod
20	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Prepare	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 morrow	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 to	punct
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 take	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Prepare	conj
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 take	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 us	case
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 take	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 farm	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 farm	det
33	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 make	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shepherds	det
36	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 make	nsubj
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 make	expl
38	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 make	aux
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 take	advcl
40	merry	merry	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 Prepare	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 Prepare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	shepherd		shepherd's wife		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic
2	prepare in a quote	infinitive		everything				for a great feast	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent everything=Product for feast=Beneficiary
3	take in a quote	future	we	things		morrow		with us; to the farm	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to morrow=Destination
4	make in a quote	may	the shepherds	merry		there			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merry=Product

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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