The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 14

Outside the door I have some firewood lying; you must split that for me into little bits that I can kindle the fire with.

Who acts: I, firewood, you, little bits · What happens: have, lie, split, kindle · To what, where: firewood, that, little bits, fire

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, firewood, you, little bits), 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	Outside	outside	ADP	_	3 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 firewood	det
7	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 firewood	acl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 split	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 split	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 split	aux
12	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	conj
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 split	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 split	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 bits	case
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bits	amod
18	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 split	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 kindle	nsubj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 kindle	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 kindle	aux
22	kindle	kindle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bits	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kindle	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	22 kindle	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	some firewood	outside the door	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Patient
2	lie	gerund	some firewood not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	split	must	you	that	into little bits result; for me	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent that=Patient into bit=Result
4	kindle	can	little bits	the fire		vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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 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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