The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 70

The next thing the girl had to do was to go to the storehouse, and to sift the corn through a sieve.

Who acts: girl, next thing · What happens: have, do, be, sift · To what, where: next thing, corn, sieve

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, next thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj:outer
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 go	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 storehouse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 storehouse	det
14	storehouse	storehouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sift	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sift	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sift	mark
18	sift	sift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 corn	det
20	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sift	obj
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 sieve	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sieve	det
23	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sift	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the girl	the next thing not said here			tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the next thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the next thing			to the storehouse; go property	tree rules
4	sift	to-infinitive	the next thing not said here	the corn	a sieve		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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