The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 33

You must ask for ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel for the shoeing, and one smith to hammer and one to hold.’

Who acts: You · What happens: ask, hold

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 ask	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 pounds	case
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pounds	nummod
6	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ask	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 iron	case
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pounds	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pounds	cc
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pounds	nummod
11	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 iron	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 steel	case
13	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pounds	nmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 shoeing	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shoeing	det
16	shoeing	shoeing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 steel	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 smith	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 smith	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 smith	nummod
20	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 hammer	case
22	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smith	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 one	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hammer	appos
25	to	to	PART	_	26 hold	mark
26	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 one	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	must	You					for ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel for the shoeing	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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