The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 23

‘And how much will it take to fill the barrel you have?’ says the Queen.

Who acts: you, Queen · What happens: take, fill, have, say · To what, where: much, barrel · 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, Queen), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 take	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 take	obj
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	16 says	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fill	mark
9	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 barrel	det
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fill	obj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 barrel	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Queen	det
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	future		much	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
2	fill	to-infinitive		the barrel	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent barrel=Patient
3	have	present	you	the barrel not said here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=Patient
4	say speech: assert	present	the Queen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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