The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 48

‘I shut them up in the cellar, but in the morning they shall be led forth into the forest and shall serve a charcoal burner until they have improved, and will never again suffer poor animals to go hungry.’

Who acts: I, sisters · What happens: shut up, lead, serve, improve, suffer, go · To what, where: sisters, cellar, forest, charcoal burner, poor animals

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, sisters), 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	_	3 shut	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj
3	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 shut	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cellar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cellar	det
8	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 led	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 led	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 led	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 led	nsubj:pass
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 led	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 led	aux:pass
17	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shut	parataxis
18	forth	forth	ADV	_	17 led	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 forest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forest	det
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 led	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 serve	cc
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 serve	aux
24	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 led	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 burner	det
26	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 burner	compound
27	burner	burner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 serve	obj
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 improved	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 improved	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 improved	aux
31	improved	improve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 serve	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 suffer	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 suffer	cc
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 suffer	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 again	advmod
36	again	again	ADV	_	37 suffer	advmod
37	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shut	conj
38	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 animals	amod
39	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 suffer	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 go	mark
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 suffer	advcl
42	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 go	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	present	I	sisters = sister	the cellar			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	lead	shall · passive		sisters = sister	the forest	morning	forth property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into forest=Destination
3	serve	shall		a charcoal burner				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burner=Attribute
4	improve	present · perfect	sisters = sister					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	suffer	future	I not said here	poor animals		again		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
6	go	to-infinitive	I not said here				hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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