The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 70

There, sit down and make a good breakfast.’

What happens: sit down, make · To what, where: good breakfast

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: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sit	expl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sit	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 make	cc
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 breakfast	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 breakfast	amod
9	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	infinitive				there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	infinitive		a good breakfast					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breakfast=Product

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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