The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 17

So I am going to kill one of those goats, and as you are a good cook you must boil the flesh for me.'

Who acts: I, you · What happens: go, kill, be, boil · To what, where: one, good cook, flesh

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. 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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kill	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 goats	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 goats	det
10	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boil	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 boil	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 cook	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 cook	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cook	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cook	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cook	amod
18	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 boil	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 boil	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 boil	aux
21	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flesh	det
23	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 boil	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 boil	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill	to-infinitive	I not said here	one of that goats		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	is a	present	you	a good cook		tree rules
4	boil	must	you	the flesh	for me	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient for i=Beneficiary

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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