The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 61

‘To-morrow I will reap this,’ said he; but on the morrow when he went to reap the wheat he found nothing but the bare straw.

Who acts: I, castle · What happens: reap, say, go, find · To what, where: this, morrow, nothing, wheat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, castle), 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	_	7 reap	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 morrow	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reap	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 reap	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reap	aux
7	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 reap	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reap	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 reap	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 morrow	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 morrow	det
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 went	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 reap	mark
22	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 went	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wheat	det
24	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	nmod:poss
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wheat	acl:relcl
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 reap	obj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 straw	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 straw	det
30	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 straw	amod
31	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reap	future	I	this		to morrow	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	castle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	past	castle		the morrow		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	reap	to-infinitive	castle not said here	nothing			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
5	find	past	castle	the wheat not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Topic

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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