The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 2

Before to-morrow night all the grain in the kingdom has to be gathered into one big heap, and if as much as a stalk of corn is wanting I must pay for it with my life.’

Who acts: grain, stalk, I · What happens: have, gather, want, pay · To what, where: much

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grain, stalk, 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	Before	before	ADP	_	5 night	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 night	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 to	punct
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 night	compound
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 grain	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grain	det
8	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kingdom	det
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grain	nmod
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	15 gathered	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 gathered	aux:pass
15	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 has	xcomp
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 heap	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 heap	nummod
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heap	amod
19	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gathered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pay	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pay	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 much	mark
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pay	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 wanting	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stalk	det
27	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wanting	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 corn	case
29	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stalk	nmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 wanting	aux
31	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 much	advcl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 pay	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 pay	aux
34	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 has	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pay	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 life	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 life	nmod:poss
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pay	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	all grain in the kingdom		night		tree rules
2	gather	to-infinitive · passive	all grain in the kingdom not said here			into one big heap	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: into heap=Co-Patient
3	want	present · progressive	a stalk of corn				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	pay	must	I	much		for stalk; with my life	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Asset for 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 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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