The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 45

When the day of reckoning had come the peasant led him into a barn, and pointing to two full sacks, said: ‘Take whichever of these you choose.’

Who acts: day, you · What happens: have, come, lead, point, say, take · To what, where: peasant, barn, two full sacks, whichever · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (day, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 reckoning	case
5	reckoning	reckoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 led	advcl
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peasant	det
9	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obj
10	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 led	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 barn	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 barn	det
14	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 led	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
17	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 said	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 sacks	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 sacks	nummod
20	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sacks	amod
21	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pointing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pointing	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 led	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Take	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Take	punct
26	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
27	whichever	whichever	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Take	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 these	case
29	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 Take	obl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 choose	nsubj
31	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 these	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 Take	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the day of reckoning					tree rules
2	come	infinitive	the day of reckoning not said here	the peasant				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peasant=Theme
3	lead	past		peasant		a barn		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into barn=Destination
4	point	gerund			two full sacks			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sack=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take	infinitive		whichever			of these	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent whichever=Theme of this=Initial_Location
7	choose	present	you					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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