The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 67

Lash him to the mast and give him a taste of the cat-o’-nine-tails.

Who acts: you · What happens: lash, give, taste · To what, where: boatman, taste, nine tails, cat o

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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	Lash	lash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lash	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 mast	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mast	det
5	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lash	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 give	cc
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lash	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 taste	det
10	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 o	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 o	det
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 o	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 cat	punct
15	o	o	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taste	nmod
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 nine	punct
18	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 tails	nummod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 nine	punct
20	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	iobj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lash	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lash	imperative	you not said here	boatman		to the mast	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to mast=Co-Patient
2	give	infinitive	you not said here	a taste of the cat o	nine tails		tree rules
3	taste			the cat o			nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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