The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 18

‘You must give me,’ says she, ‘the full of a pack of wool, and I have an ancient crock which you must fill with butter, likewise a barrel which you must fill for me full of wheat.’

Who acts: You, I, ancient crock, barrel · What happens: give, say, have, fill · To what, where: me, ancient crock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, ancient crock, barrel), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 full	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 full	det
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 says	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 pack	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pack	det
16	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 wool	case
18	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pack	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	parataxis
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 crock	det
24	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 crock	amod
25	crock	crock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 fill	nsubj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 fill	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 fill	aux
29	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 crock	acl:relcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 butter	case
31	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fill	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 barrel	punct
33	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	35 barrel	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 barrel	det
35	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obl
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 fill	nsubj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 fill	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 fill	aux
39	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 barrel	acl:relcl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 fill	obl
42	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fill	xcomp
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 wheat	case
44	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 full	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	must	You		me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	I	a ancient crock		a barrel obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crock=Patient
4	fill	must	a ancient crock			with butter	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with butter=Instrument
5	fill	must	a barrel			for me; full property	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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