The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 41
So this time also she said that he should have leave to go, but he must first promise that he would be back by the time the joint was turned and that he would bring a great armful of wood with him.
Who acts: cook, Minnikin · What happens: say, have, leave, go, promise, be · To what, where: joint, great armful · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, Minnikin), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leave | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 promise | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 promise | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 promise | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 promise | aux |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 promise | advmod |
| 19 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 turned | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 back | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 back | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 back | cop |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 turned | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 joint | det |
| 29 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 turned | aux:pass |
| 31 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 promise | advcl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bring | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 bring | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 bring | aux |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 turned | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 armful | det |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 armful | amod |
| 39 | armful | armful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 wood | case |
| 41 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 armful | nmod |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | cook | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | should | Minnikin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Minnikin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Minnikin not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | must | Minnikin | first property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | would | Minnikin | back property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | turn | past · passive | the joint | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 8 | bring | would | Minnikin | a great armful of wood | with tree | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent armful=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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