The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 60

‘Take this long copper pin,’ she went on, ‘and every time you stick it in your dress Mother Bourhis will be obliged to leave the house in order to go and count her cabbages.

Who acts: you, this, woman, dress · What happens: take, pin, go on, stick, oblige, leave · To what, where: pin, dress, Mother, house, cabbages

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, woman, dress), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pin	nsubj
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pin	amod
5	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pin	compound
6	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stick	cc
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stick	obl:unmarked
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 stick	nsubj
18	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stick	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 dress	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dress	nmod:poss
22	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stick	obl
23	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 obliged	nsubj:pass
24	Bourhis	Bourhis	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Mother	flat
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 obliged	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 obliged	aux:pass
27	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 dress	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 leave	mark
29	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 obliged	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leave	obj
32	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 go	mark
33	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 in	fixed
34	to	to	PART	_	35 go	mark
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 leave	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 count	cc
37	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 go	conj
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 cabbages	nmod:poss
39	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 count	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pin		this				tree rules
3	go on	past	woman				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stick	present	you	pin	your dress	time	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in dress=Destination
5	oblige	future · passive	your dress not said here	Mother			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6	leave	to-infinitive	your dress not said here	the house			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
7	go	to-infinitive	your dress not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	count	infinitive	your dress not said here	woman's cabbages			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=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 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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