The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 95

‘Make me a large vessel with a partition in the middle,’ she said; ‘catch all sorts of game, and put them into one half of it, and into the other half pour water; so that there may be meat and drink for me.’

Who acts: you, lightning · What happens: make, say, catch, put, pour, be · To what, where: large vessel, me, sorts, one half, water, other half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lightning), 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	_	2 Make	punct
2	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Make	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vessel	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 vessel	amod
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Make	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 partition	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 partition	det
9	partition	partition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Make	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 partition	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Make	parataxis
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 catch	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 catch	punct
19	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sorts	det
21	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 catch	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 game	case
23	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sorts	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 catch	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 half	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 half	nummod
30	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 put	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 half	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 pour	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 pour	cc
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 half	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 half	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 half	amod
38	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	39 pour	obl
39	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 catch	advcl
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pour	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 meat	punct
42	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	46 be	mark
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 so	fixed
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	46 be	expl
45	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 be	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 meat	cop
47	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Make	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 drink	cc
49	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 meat	conj
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 me	case
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 drink	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	a large vessel	me		with a partition in the middle	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary vessel=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	lightning					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	catch	infinitive	lightning not said here	all sorts of game				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
4	put	infinitive	lightning not said here	sorts = sort		one half of half		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
5	pour	present	lightning not said here	water		the other half		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into half=Destination
6	is a	infinitive	you not said here	meat and drink for me				tree rules
7	sort			game				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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