The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 42

‘Go,’ said the maiden, ‘I will get up at once and cook the old man’s supper for him, and then I will feed the pretty cock and hen and the brindled cow.’

Who acts: Go, I · What happens: say, get up, cook, feed · To what, where: maiden, supper, pretty cock · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Go, I), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	Go	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 get	compound:prt
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 get	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cook	cc
17	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 supper	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 man	case
22	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cook	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cook	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 feed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 feed	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 feed	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 feed	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 feed	aux
30	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cock	det
32	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cock	amod
33	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 feed	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hen	cc
35	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cock	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 cow	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cow	det
38	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cow	amod
39	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cock	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 feed	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 feed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Go	the maiden				tree rules
2	get up	future	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	cook	infinitive	I not said here	the old man's supper			for Go	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent supper=Product for he=Beneficiary
4	feed	future	I		the pretty cock and hen and the brindled cow	then		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=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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