The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 30

But I will teach you how to do it; you must turn your pitchfork upside down, and work with the handle, and then all will fly out of its own accord.”

Who acts: I, you, all · What happens: teach, do, turn, fly out · To what, where: you, pitchforksful, pitchfork, own accord

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 (I, you, all), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 teach	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 teach	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 teach	aux
4	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 teach	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 do	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 teach	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 turn	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 turn	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	aux
13	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 teach	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pitchfork	nmod:poss
15	pitchfork	pitchfork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obj
16	upside	upside	ADV	_	17 down	advmod
17	down	down	ADV	_	13 turn	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 work	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 work	cc
20	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 handle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 handle	det
23	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 work	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fly	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fly	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 fly	advmod
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 fly	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fly	aux
29	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 teach	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	34 accord	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 accord	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 accord	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 accord	amod
34	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fly	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	pitchforksful				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	turn	must	you	your pitchfork			work with the handle obl; down property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pitchfork=Theme
4	fly out	future	all	pitchforksful's own accord		then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location accord=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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