The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 13

But you need be under no concern about food, for in my left ear there lies a cloth, and if you will but take it and spread it out, you can have as many dishes as you like.’

Who acts: you, left ear · What happens: need, be, lie, take, spread out, have · To what, where: concern, cloth, many dishes

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, left ear), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 need	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 concern	csubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 concern	cop
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 concern	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 concern	det
7	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 food	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concern	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ear	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 ear	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 ear	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ear	nmod:poss
14	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ear	amod
15	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lies	nsubj
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 ear	advmod
17	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 concern	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cloth	det
19	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lies	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 take	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 will	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 will	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 take	aux
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 take	cc
26	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 concern	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spread	cc
29	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 take	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spread	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	29 spread	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 have	aux
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 take	conj
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dishes	amod
38	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 have	obj
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 like	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 like	nsubj
41	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 have	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	imperative	you not said here		no concern	about food	tree rules
3	lie	present	my left ear				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	future		cloth			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	spread out	past		cloth			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
6	have	can	you	many dishes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient
7	like	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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