The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 35

‘Oh, just take a very large bread-knife, sharpen it, and pretend that you are going to cut straight through the third of the four loaves which are lying on the kitchen table in the King’s palace—count them from right to left—and you will soon find her,’ said Dapplegrim.

Who acts: you, four loaves, right, Dapplegrim · What happens: take, sharpen, pretend, go, cut, lie · To what, where: large bread knife, knife, third, kitchen table, tons, right · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, four loaves, right, Dapplegrim), 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	_	5 take	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 take	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 knife	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 knife	amod
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knife	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 bread	punct
11	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sharpen	punct
13	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sharpen	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pretend	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pretend	cc
17	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 going	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 pretend	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cut	mark
23	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 going	xcomp
24	straight	straight	ADV	_	27 third	advmod
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 third	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 third	det
27	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 loaves	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 loaves	det
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 loaves	nummod
31	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 third	nmod
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 lying	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 lying	aux
34	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 loaves	acl:relcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 table	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 table	det
37	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 table	compound
38	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lying	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 palace	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 King	det
41	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 palace	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 King	case
43	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 table	nmod
44	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 count	punct
45	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 count	obj
47	from	from	ADP	_	48 right	case
48	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 count	obl
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 left	case
50	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 right	acl:relcl
51	—	-	PUNCT	_	56 find	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 find	cc
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 find	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 find	aux
55	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	56 find	advmod
56	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
57	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 find	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
60	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
61	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 said	nsubj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	60 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive		a large bread knife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
2	sharpen	infinitive		knife			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	pretend	infinitive					tree rules
4	go	present · progressive	you				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	cut	to-infinitive	you not said here	the third of the four loaves			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset third=Product
6	lie	present · progressive	the four loaves		the kitchen table in the King's palace		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
7	count	infinitive		tons = ton	right		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	leave	past	right not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	find	future	you	Princess		soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
10	say speech: assert	past	Dapplegrim				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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