The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 67

The people who are inside the house are all so sound asleep that it will not be easy to awake them; but you must go straight to the table-drawer, and take out three bits of bread, and if you hear anyone snoring, pluck three feathers from his head; he will not waken for that.’

Who acts: people, you, Weatherbeard · What happens: be, not be, awake, go, take out, hear · To what, where: people, table drawer, three bits, anyone snoring, three feathers, head

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 (people, you, Weatherbeard), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sound	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 are	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 people	acl:relcl
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 are	obl
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sound	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 sound	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sound	advmod
11	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sound	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 easy	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 easy	expl
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 easy	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 easy	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 easy	cop
18	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 asleep	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 awake	mark
20	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 easy	csubj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 awake	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sound	conj
27	straight	straight	ADV	_	32 drawer	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 drawer	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 drawer	det
30	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drawer	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 table	punct
32	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 take	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 take	cc
35	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 sound	conj
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 take	compound:prt
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 bits	nummod
38	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 take	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 bread	case
40	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bits	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 pluck	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 pluck	cc
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 hear	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 hear	nsubj
45	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 pluck	advcl
46	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	47 snoring	compound
47	snoring	snoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hear	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hear	punct
49	pluck	pluck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 sound	conj
50	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 feathers	nummod
51	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 pluck	obj
52	from	from	ADP	_	54 head	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 head	nmod:poss
54	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 pluck	obl
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 waken	punct
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 waken	nsubj
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 waken	aux
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 waken	advmod
59	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sound	conj
60	for	for	ADP	_	61 that	case
61	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	59 waken	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sound	punct
63	’	'	SYM	_	11 sound	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the people			all, asleep, sound property	tree rules
2	not is	future	the people not said here			easy property	tree rules
3	awake	to-infinitive		people			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
4	go	must	you		the table drawer		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to drawer=Initial_Location
5	take out	infinitive	the people not said here	three bits of bread			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
6	hear a condition, not said to happen	present	you	anyone snoring			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snoring=Stimulus
7	pluck	infinitive	the people not said here	three feathers	Weatherbeard's head		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from head=Source
8	not waken	future	Weatherbeard			for that	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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