The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 17

But come and sit down in my kitchen while I catch the goat and milk it.'

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, sit down, catch · To what, where: kitchen, goat

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 come	cc
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sit	cc
4	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sit	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kitchen	nmod:poss
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 catch	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 catch	nsubj
11	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 goat	det
13	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 catch	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 milk	cc
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goat	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 catch	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	infinitive	you not said here			my kitchen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location
3	catch	present	I	kitchen	the goat and milk		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent goat=Beneficiary it=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 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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