The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 72

I have a hundred wives, which I call together when I find a grain of corn, and as soon as they are there I swallow it myself; should one of them dare to be angry, I would give her a lesson with my beak.

Who acts: I, dogs, one · What happens: have, call together, find, be, swallow, dare · To what, where: hundred wives, grain, lesson, wife

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 (I, dogs, one), 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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wives	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 wives	nummod
5	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 call	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wives	acl:relcl
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 call	advmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 find	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 call	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 grain	det
15	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 corn	case
17	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grain	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swallow	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 swallow	cc
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 soon	advmod
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 swallow	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 there	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 there	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 there	cop
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 soon	advcl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 swallow	nsubj
27	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 swallow	obj
29	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 swallow	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 dare	punct
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 dare	aux
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 dare	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 one	nmod
35	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	38 angry	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 angry	cop
38	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dare	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 give	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 give	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 give	aux
42	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 dare	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 give	iobj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 lesson	det
45	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 beak	case
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 beak	nmod:poss
48	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a hundred wives			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	call together speech: assert	present	I	a hundred wives		together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
3	find	present	I	a grain of corn			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Topic
4	is	present	dogs = dog			there property	tree rules
5	swallow	present	I	grain		myself obl; soon property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	dare	should	one of dogs				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	to-infinitive	one of dogs not said here			angry property	tree rules
8	give	would	I	a lesson	wife	with my beak	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient lesson=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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