The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 87

Then the eldest brother replied, ‘The corn has all been cut, but it has not yet been put into barns; let the knave collect all the grain in the kingdom into one big heap before to-morrow night, and if as much as a stalk of corn is left let him be put to death.

Who acts: eldest brother, knave, King · What happens: reply, cut, not put, let, collect, leave · To what, where: corn, barns, knave, grain, kingdom, stalk

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest brother, knave, King), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 replied	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
5	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corn	det
9	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	aux
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 cut	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cut	aux:pass
13	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 replied	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj:pass
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 put	advmod
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 put	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 put	aux:pass
21	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cut	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 barns	case
23	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
25	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 knave	det
27	knave	knave	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 let	obj
28	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 grain	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grain	det
31	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 collect	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 kingdom	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kingdom	det
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 collect	obl
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 heap	case
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 heap	nummod
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 heap	amod
38	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 collect	obl
39	before	before	ADP	_	43 night	case
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 night	case
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 to	punct
42	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 night	compound
43	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 collect	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 let	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 let	cc
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 much	mark
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 much	advmod
48	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 let	advcl
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 left	mark
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 stalk	det
51	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 left	nsubj:pass
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 corn	case
53	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 stalk	nmod
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 left	aux:pass
55	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 much	advcl
56	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 let	conj
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 let	obj
58	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 put	aux:pass
59	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 let	xcomp
60	to	to	ADP	_	61 death	case
61	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 put	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle	the eldest brother			then		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cut	present · perfect · passive		the corn			all property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	not put	present · perfect · passive		corn	barns	yet		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
4	let	infinitive		the knave				tree rules
5	collect	infinitive	the knave not said here	all grain	the kingdom	night	into one big heap	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent grain=Material into heap=Product
6	leave	present · passive		a stalk of corn				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	let	infinitive		King				tree rules
8	put	infinitive · passive	King not said here				to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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