The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 29

“If you clean it out as other people do, ten pitchforksful will come in for every one you throw out.

Who acts: you, other people, ten pitchforksful · What happens: clean out, do, come in, throw out · To what, where: work, one

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, other people, ten pitchforksful), 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	_	15 come	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 clean	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 clean	nsubj
4	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clean	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 clean	compound:prt
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clean	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clean	punct
12	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pitchforksful	nummod
13	pitchforksful	pitchforksful	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 throw	nsubj
21	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 one	acl:relcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 throw	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clean out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	work		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	do in a quote	present	other people			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come in in a quote	future	ten pitchforksful		for every one	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw out in a quote	present	you	every one not said here		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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