The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 101
‘I will give thee the art to brew a hundred lasts of malt in one brewing.’
Who acts: I, hundred · What happens: give, brew, last · To what, where: art, thee
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hundred), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 art | det |
| 7 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 brew | mark |
| 9 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hundred | det |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 lasts | nsubj |
| 12 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brew | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 malt | case |
| 14 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lasts | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 brewing | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 brewing | nummod |
| 17 | brewing | brewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 malt | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | the art | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient art=Theme | |||
| 2 | brew | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | last | present | a hundred | of malt in one brewing | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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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