The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 15

Every night I will get up and pray for you, in winter that you may always have a fire to warm yourselves by, and in summer that you may not languish in the heat.’

Who acts: I, you, fire · What happens: get up, pray, have, warm, not languish · To what, where: fire, yourselves, heat

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, fire), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl:unmarked
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pray	cc
8	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 pray	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 winter	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 winter	case
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pray	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 have	advmod
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 winter	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 warm	mark
22	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
23	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 warm	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	22 warm	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 languish	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 languish	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 summer	case
28	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 languish	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 languish	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 languish	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 languish	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 languish	advmod
33	languish	languish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 heat	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heat	det
36	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 languish	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	future	I			night		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	pray	present	I not said here			winter	for you	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for you=Theme
3	have	may	you	a fire			always property	tree rules
4	warm	to-infinitive	a fire not said here	yourselves				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient
5	not languish	may	you		the heat	summer		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heat=Location

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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