The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 32

‘If you have not picked the barley out of the ashes, and put it all back in the pot before nightfall, I shall eat you up!’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not pick, put, eat up · To what, where: you, ashes, barley, pot

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 put	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 picked	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 picked	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 picked	advmod
6	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 put	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barley	det
8	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picked	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 ashes	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ashes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ashes	det
12	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 picked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 back	advmod
18	back	back	ADV	_	15 put	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 pot	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pot	det
21	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 nightfall	case
23	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 eat	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	aux
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 put	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 eat	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 eat	compound:prt
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not pick a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive		you	the ashes		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary barley=Theme
2	put	imperative	you not said here	barley	the pot	before nightfall	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pot=Destination
3	eat up	shall	I	you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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