The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 54

Thou must also fetch me the drinking-horn that is never empty, and the harp that never ceases to play until it is bidden.

Who acts: Thou, drinking horn, harp · What happens: fetch, not be, not cease, play, bid · To what, where: drinking horn, me, harp

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, drinking horn, harp), 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	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 fetch	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fetch	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 fetch	advmod
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fetch	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horn	det
7	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horn	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 drinking	punct
9	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 empty	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 empty	cop
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 empty	advmod
13	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horn	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bidden	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bidden	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 harp	det
17	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bidden	nsubj:pass
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 ceases	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 ceases	advmod
20	ceases	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 harp	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 play	mark
22	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ceases	xcomp
23	until	until	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 play	obl
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bidden	aux:pass
26	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fetch	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	must	Thou	the drinking horn	me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary horn=Theme
2	not is	present	the drinking horn				empty property	tree rules
3	not cease	present	the harp					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	play	to-infinitive	the harp not said here			until harp		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bid	present · passive		the harp				tree rules

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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