The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 21

‘How much butter will it take to fill your crock?’

Who acts: much butter · What happens: take, fill · To what, where: increase, crock

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 (much butter), 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	_	7 take	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 butter	amod
4	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	expl
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fill	mark
9	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 crock	nmod:poss
11	crock	crock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fill	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	future	much butter	increase					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fill	to-infinitive	much butter not said here	your crock					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crock=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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