The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 92

And you shall offer yourself to serve in his stable, and to tend his horses, till at length so well content is he, that he gives you the bay colt to wash and brush.

Who acts: you, well content, Erin · What happens: offer, serve, tend, be, give, wash · To what, where: yourself, horses, Erin, bay colt, you

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, well content, Erin), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 offer	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 offer	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 offer	aux
4	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 offer	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 serve	mark
7	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 offer	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 stable	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stable	nmod:poss
10	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serve	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tend	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tend	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tend	mark
14	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 offer	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horses	nmod:poss
16	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tend	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 length	punct
18	till	till	ADP	_	20 length	case
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 length	case
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tend	parataxis
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 well	advmod
22	well	well	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 content	amod
23	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 he	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 he	cop
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 length	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gives	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 gives	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gives	nsubj
29	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tend	parataxis
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 gives	iobj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 colt	det
32	bay	bay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 colt	amod
33	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gives	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 wash	mark
35	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 colt	acl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 brush	cc
37	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wash	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 offer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	offer	shall	you	yourself			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
2	serve	to-infinitive	you not said here			in Erin's stable	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in stable=Attribute
3	tend	to-infinitive	you not said here	Erin's horses			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
4	is a	present	well content	Erin			tree rules
5	give	present	Erin	the bay colt	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient colt=Theme
6	wash	to-infinitive	Erin not said here	the bay colt not said here			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	brush	infinitive	Erin not said here				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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