The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 53
You shall clean the knives, and black the boots, and make the fires, and help me generally when the giant is out.
Who acts: You, giant · What happens: clean, make, help, be · To what, where: knives, fires, me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, giant), 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 | 3 clean | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 clean | aux |
| 3 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knives | det |
| 5 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clean | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 black | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 black | cc |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knives | amod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boots | det |
| 10 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 black | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 clean | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fires | det |
| 15 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 help | cc |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 clean | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 18 help | advmod |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 out | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 giant | det |
| 23 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 out | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 out | cop |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 help | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | shall | You | the knives | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | You not said here | the fires | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | You not said here | me | generally property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | is | present | the giant | out property | tree rules |
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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