The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 130
‘No, that will not do,’ said Jack, ‘for then Farmer Weatherbeard will make the King fall sick, and there will be no one who can make him well again before Farmer Weatherbeard comes and cures him, and for that he will demand the gold ring.’
Who acts: that, Jack, Farmer, King, one · What happens: not do, say, make, fall, be, come · To what, where: one, Jack, gold ring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Jack, Farmer, King), 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 then | case |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 make | obl |
| 16 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 make | nsubj |
| 17 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Farmer | flat |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fall | nsubj |
| 22 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | parataxis |
| 23 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fall | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 one | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 one | cc |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 be | expl |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 be | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 one | cop |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | conj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 make | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 make | aux |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 one | parataxis |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 make | obj |
| 35 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 again | advmod |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 make | advmod |
| 37 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 40 comes | mark |
| 38 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 comes | nsubj |
| 39 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Farmer | flat |
| 40 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 make | advcl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 cures | cc |
| 42 | cures | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 comes | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 cures | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 demand | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 demand | cc |
| 46 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 50 demand | mark |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 for | fixed |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 demand | nsubj |
| 49 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 demand | aux |
| 50 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 ring | det |
| 52 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 ring | compound |
| 53 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 demand | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 demand | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 demand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | future | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | future | Farmer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for then=Asset | |||||
| 4 | fall | present | the King | sick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | Farmer not said here | no one | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | can | no one | Jack | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | |||
| 7 | come | present | Farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | cure | present | Farmer not said here | Jack | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source | ||||
| 9 | demand speech: request | future | Farmer | the gold ring | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Precondition |
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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