The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 17

I will take plenty of peas with me and strew them along; they are even larger than lentils, and will show her the way.’

Who acts: I, peas · What happens: take, strew, be, show · To what, where: plenty, peas, way, child

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, peas), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 peas	case
6	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plenty	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strew	cc
10	strew	strew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 strew	obj
12	along	along	ADV	_	10 strew	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 larger	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 larger	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 larger	cop
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 larger	advmod
17	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 take	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 lentils	case
19	lentils	lentil	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 larger	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 show	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 show	cc
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 show	aux
23	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 take	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 show	iobj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	future	I	plenty of peas		with me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme
2	strew	infinitive	I not said here	peas = pea		along property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is	present	peas = pea			than lentils; large property	tree rules
4	show	future		the way	child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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