The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 196

‘Fetch me first something to eat and drink, as quickly as possible; and after that bring musicians hither, and let us have music all day long.’

Who acts: you, us · What happens: fetch, eat, drink, bring, let, have · To what, where: something, me, musicians, us, music

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 Fetch	punct
2	Fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Fetch	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 Fetch	advmod
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 Fetch	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 something	acl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drink	cc
9	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 eat	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quickly	punct
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 quickly	advmod
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 drink	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 possible	mark
14	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quickly	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 bring	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bring	cc
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 bring	obl
19	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Fetch	parataxis
20	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bring	obj
21	hither	hither	ADV	_	19 bring	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 let	cc
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 bring	conj
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 have	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Fetch	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	something	me		first property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary something=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	something not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	infinitive	you not said here				quickly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring	present		musicians		after that	hither property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent musician=Theme
5	let	infinitive		us				tree rules
6	have	infinitive	us not said here	music		day	long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Patient

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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