The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 86

“Now, Pivi, put them in the shed where you lay, and when the sun sets to cool himself in the sea and rise again not so hot in the dawn you must go and take the nuts.”

Who acts: Pivi, you, sun · What happens: put, lay, set, cool, rise, go · To what, where: nuts, shed, sun, sea, dawn

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi, you, sun), 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	_	6 put	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 Pivi	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Pivi	punct
4	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Pivi	punct
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 shed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shed	det
10	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 lay	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 shed	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sets	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sets	cc
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 sets	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sets	nsubj
19	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 put	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 cool	mark
21	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sets	xcomp
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 cool	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sea	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cool	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rise	cc
27	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cool	conj
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 rise	advmod
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 hot	advmod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 hot	advmod
31	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rise	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 dawn	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dawn	det
34	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hot	obl
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 go	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 go	aux
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 dawn	acl:relcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 take	cc
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 go	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 nuts	det
41	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 take	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	infinitive	Pivi	nuts = nut	the shed			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in shed=Destination
2	lay in a quote	present	you					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	set in a quote	present	the sun					tree rules
4	cool in a quote	to-infinitive	the sun not said here	sun	the sea			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	rise in a quote	present	the sun not said here			again	hot property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go in a quote	must	you	the dawn not said here				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dawn=Theme
7	take in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the nuts				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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