The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 5

Why, you have only got to fetch the man who carried half the forest on his shoulders.’

Who acts: you, man · What happens: get, fetch, carry · To what, where: man, forest, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Why	advcl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fetch	mark
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 got	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 carried	nsubj
12	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	acl:relcl
13	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	15 forest	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 shoulders	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shoulders	nmod:poss
18	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carried	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fetch	to-infinitive	you not said here	the man		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	carry	past	the man	half forest	man's shoulders	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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