The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 105

'I would do my best, of course,' replied the jackal; 'but you must kill me a cow, and when we have eaten the flesh I will take the skin and make your shoes out of it.'

Who acts: I, you, we · What happens: do, reply, kill, eat, take, make · To what, where: best, jackal, me, flesh, skin, shoes

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, we), 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	_	4 do	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 best	nmod:poss
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
8	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	12 replied	advmod
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 of	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jackal	det
14	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 kill	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 kill	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 kill	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 kill	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 kill	aux
20	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 replied	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 kill	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cow	det
23	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kill	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 take	cc
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 eaten	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 eaten	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 eaten	aux
29	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 take	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flesh	det
31	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eaten	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 take	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 take	aux
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 do	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 skin	det
36	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 make	cc
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 take	conj
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 shoes	nmod:poss
40	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 make	obj
41	out	out	ADP	_	43 it	case
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	would	I	my best		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	reply speech: assert	past		the jackal		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jackal=Topic
3	kill	must	you	me		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer cow=Result
4	eat	present · perfect	we	the flesh		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient
5	take	future	I	the skin		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
6	make	infinitive	I not said here	your shoes	skin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=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 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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