The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 57

'Well, call the ants, and tell them to fetch it for you; and, if some of it has been scattered by the wind, to bring in its stead the grains that were in the cakes you gave them.'

Who acts: you, wind, grains · What happens: call, tell, fetch, scatter, bring, be · To what, where: ants, bran, some, grains, stead, cakes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wind, grains), 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 call	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 call	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ants	det
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 call	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 call	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fetch	mark
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fetch	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 fetch	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 scattered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 scattered	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 scattered	mark
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 scattered	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 some	nmod
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 scattered	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 scattered	aux:pass
25	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 call	conj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 wind	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 scattered	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bring	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 bring	mark
31	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 call	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 stead	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 stead	nmod:poss
34	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 grains	det
36	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bring	obj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 gave	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 gave	cop
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 cakes	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cakes	det
41	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 gave	obl
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 gave	nsubj
43	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 grains	acl:relcl
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 gave	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	the ants				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ant=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		ants = ant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	bran			for you	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for you=Beneficiary
4	scatter a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive	the wind	some				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	bring	to-infinitive	you not said here	the grains		bran's stead		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
6	is	past	the grains			the cakes	give property	tree rules

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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