The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 103

Why, it would take us a year, possibly our whole lives, to eat up twelve oxen and twelve tons of bread.’

Who acts: it · What happens: take, eat up · To what, where: us, twelve oxen

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 take	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lives	punct
10	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	13 lives	advmod
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lives	nmod:poss
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lives	amod
13	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 eat	compound:prt
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 oxen	nummod
19	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tons	cc
21	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 tons	nummod
22	tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 oxen	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 bread	case
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tons	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	it		us		year	our whole lives obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination
2	eat up	to-infinitive		twelve oxen and twelve tons of bread					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=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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