The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 80

‘I will give him some impossible tasks to perform; that will be the best way of getting rid of him.’

Who acts: I, that, best way · What happens: give, perform, be, get · To what, where: impossible tasks, King, best way

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 (I, that, best way), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 tasks	det
7	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tasks	amod
8	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 perform	mark
10	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tasks	acl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 way	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 way	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 way	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	parataxis
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 getting	mark
19	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 way	acl
20	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 getting	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rid	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	some impossible tasks	King		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient task=Theme
2	perform	to-infinitive	I not said here	some impossible tasks not said here			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	future	that	the best way			tree rules
4	get	gerund	the best way not said here			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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