The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 24
‘It will take the increase of seven barrels of wheat for seven years.’
Who acts: It · What happens: take · To what, where: increase
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 (It), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 increase | det |
| 6 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 barrels | case |
| 8 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 barrels | nummod |
| 9 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 increase | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wheat | case |
| 11 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 barrels | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | It | the increase of seven barrels of wheat | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent increase=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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