The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 109

‘Well, since thou wert so active to-day, to-morrow thou wilt thatch this byre with a feather from every different bird, or else thy blood shall pay for it,’ and he went out.

Who acts: thou, blood, youth · What happens: thatch, pay, go out · To what, where: byre

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, blood, youth), 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 wert	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 wert	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wert	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	6 wert	mark
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 wert	nsubj
6	wert	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 active	advmod
8	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wert	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 to	punct
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 active	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thatch	punct
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 morrow	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thatch	obl
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 thatch	nsubj
17	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	18 thatch	aux
18	thatch	thatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wert	conj
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 byre	det
20	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thatch	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 feather	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 feather	det
23	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thatch	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 bird	case
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 bird	det
26	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bird	amod
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thatch	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pay	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 pay	cc
30	else	else	ADV	_	34 pay	advmod
31	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 blood	nmod:poss
32	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pay	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 pay	aux
34	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thatch	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pay	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pay	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 pay	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 went	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 went	nsubj
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wert	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 went	compound:prt
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wert	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thatch	future	thou	this byre	to morrow; with a feather; from every different bird	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent byre=Destination with feather=Theme
2	pay	shall	thy blood		for byre; else property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
3	go out	past	youth			vn interact-36.6 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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