The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 7

“Therefore,” continued the old man, “you should send for a gardener whose father and grandfather have been gardeners before him, and very soon your garden will be full of green grass and gay flowers, and you will enjoy its delicious fruit.”

Who acts: you, garden · What happens: continue, send, be, enjoy · To what, where: old man, gardeners, delicious fruit

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, garden), 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	_	5 continued	punct
2	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	5 continued	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Therefore	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Therefore	punct
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 send	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 send	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 send	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 send	aux
13	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 continued	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 gardener	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 gardener	det
16	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 send	obl
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gardener	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grandfather	cc
20	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 father	conj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 gardeners	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 gardeners	cop
23	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 send	obj
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 send	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 full	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 full	cc
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 soon	advmod
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 full	advmod
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 garden	nmod:poss
31	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 full	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 full	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 full	cop
34	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 continued	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 grass	case
36	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grass	amod
37	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 full	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 flowers	cc
39	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 flowers	amod
40	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grass	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 enjoy	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 enjoy	cc
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 enjoy	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 enjoy	aux
45	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 continued	conj
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 fruit	nmod:poss
47	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 fruit	amod
48	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 enjoy	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past		the old man		therefore property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	send in a quote	should	you		before man	for a gardener	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present · perfect		gardeners			tree rules
4	is in a quote	future	your garden			of green grass and gay flowers; full, soon property	tree rules
5	enjoy in a quote	future	you	garden's delicious fruit			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus

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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