The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 55

You must then demand as much wood as three mules can carry, and a great cauldron, and must shut yourself up in a room with the Sultan, and when the cauldron boils you must throw him into it, and there leave him until his flesh is completely separated from his bones.

Who acts: You, three mules, cauldron · What happens: demand, carry, shut up, boil, throw, leave · To what, where: much wood, great cauldron, yourself, room, physician, cauldron

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, three mules, cauldron), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 demand	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 demand	aux
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 demand	advmod
4	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demand	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 carry	mark
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 mules	nummod
10	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carry	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 carry	aux
12	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 demand	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cauldron	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cauldron	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cauldron	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cauldron	amod
17	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carry	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shut	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shut	cc
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 shut	aux
21	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 demand	parataxis
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 shut	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 shut	compound:prt
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 room	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 room	det
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shut	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 Sultan	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Sultan	det
29	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 room	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 throw	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 throw	cc
32	when	when	SCONJ	_	35 boils	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cauldron	det
34	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 boils	nsubj
35	boils	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 throw	advcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 throw	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 throw	aux
38	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 demand	parataxis
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 throw	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 throw	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 leave	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 leave	cc
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 leave	advmod
45	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 demand	parataxis
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 leave	obj
47	until	until	SCONJ	_	52 separated	mark
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 flesh	nmod:poss
49	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 separated	nsubj:pass
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 separated	aux:pass
51	completely	completely	ADV	_	52 separated	advmod
52	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 leave	advcl
53	from	from	ADP	_	55 bones	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 bones	nmod:poss
55	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 separated	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 demand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	must	You	much wood		then		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Precondition
2	carry	can	three mules	a great cauldron				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	shut up	must		yourself	a room with the Sultan			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
4	boil	present	the cauldron					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	throw	must	you	physician	cauldron			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into it=Result
6	leave	infinitive		physician	there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	separate	present · passive		physician's flesh			from physician's bones; completely property	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from bone=Co-Patient

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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