The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 106

When you wish to set forth you must go into the plain and take seven head of deer, and must make water-tight bags of their hides and keep their flesh in seven portions.

Who acts: you · What happens: wish, set, go, take, make, keep · To what, where: plain, seven head, water, flesh, seven portions

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wish	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 go	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 set	mark
5	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wish	xcomp
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 plain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plain	det
12	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 take	cc
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 head	nummod
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 deer	case
18	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 make	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 make	cc
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 make	aux
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	parataxis
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 water	punct
25	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bags	amod
26	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 make	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 hides	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hides	nmod:poss
29	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bags	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 keep	cc
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 make	conj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 flesh	nmod:poss
33	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 keep	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 portions	case
35	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 portions	nummod
36	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 keep	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	present	you				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	set not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	go	must	you		the plain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into plain=Initial_Location
4	take	infinitive	you not said here	seven head of deer			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	make	must		water			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset water=Beneficiary bag=Product
6	keep	infinitive		bags's flesh	seven portions		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme in portion=Location

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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