The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 107

Why, you would first have to dig a pit, and then twist ropes of willow, and drive in posts and fill the hole with pitch, and, last of all, set it on fire.

Who acts: you, all · What happens: have, dig, twist, drive, fill, set · To what, where: pit, ropes, posts, hole, fire

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, all), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dig	mark
8	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pit	det
10	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dig	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 twist	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 twist	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 twist	advmod
14	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dig	conj
15	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 twist	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 willow	case
17	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ropes	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drive	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drive	cc
20	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 twist	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 posts	case
22	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 drive	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fill	cc
24	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 drive	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hole	det
26	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fill	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 pitch	case
28	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hole	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 set	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 set	cc
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 all	punct
32	last	last	ADV	_	34 all	advmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 set	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 all	punct
36	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 set	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 fire	case
39	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 set	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	you				first property	tree rules
2	dig	to-infinitive	you not said here	a pit				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme
3	twist	infinitive	you not said here	ropes of willow		then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
4	drive	present			posts			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	fill	present		the hole			with pitch	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hole=Patient with pitch=Instrument
6	set	infinitive	all	hole	fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination

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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