The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 11

‘Well, we will take you in the forest, where you shall cut wood, and then we will bind it up in bundles and sell it in the town.’

Who acts: we, you · What happens: take, cut, bind up, sell · To what, where: you, forest, wood, town

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you), 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	_	6 take	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 take	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 cut	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 cut	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	aux
15	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	advcl
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bind	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bind	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 bind	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 bind	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bind	aux
22	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cut	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bind	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 bind	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 bundles	case
26	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bind	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sell	cc
28	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cut	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sell	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 town	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 town	det
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	future	we	you	the forest			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in forest=Location
2	cut	shall	you	wood				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Product
3	bind up	future	we	wood		then	in bundles	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination in bundle=Theme
4	sell	infinitive	you not said here	wood	the town			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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