The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 33

‘If you were to climb up and shake down the acorns the pig would pick them up.’

Who acts: you, pig · What happens: climb up, shake down, pick up · To what, where: acorns

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pig), 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	_	6 climb	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 climb	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 climb	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 climb	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 climb	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shake	cc
9	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 climb	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 shake	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 acorns	det
12	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shake	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pig	det
14	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pick	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pick	aux
16	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 acorns	acl:relcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pick	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 pick	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 climb	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	climb up	past	you		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake down	infinitive	you not said here	the acorns	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent acorn=Patient
3	pick up	would	the pig	acorns = acorn	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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