The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 3
‘You must get him such a good place that he will become master of all masters,’ she said, and then she put some food and a roll of tobacco into a bag for them.
Who acts: You, Jack, woman · What happens: get, become, say, put, roll · To what, where: good place, Jack, master, food, bag, tobacco · 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 (You, Jack, woman), 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 | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 place | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 become | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 become | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 become | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 masters | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 masters | det |
| 17 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 master | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 put | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | nsubj |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 food | det |
| 28 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 roll | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 roll | det |
| 31 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 food | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 tobacco | case |
| 33 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 roll | nmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 bag | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bag | det |
| 36 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | must | You | such good place | Jack | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary place=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | future | Jack | master of all masters | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient place=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | put | past | woman | some food and a roll of tobacco | a bag | then | for food | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal | |
| 5 | roll | tobacco | nom roll «event 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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