The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 21

I will give you my blue-check apron, which you must spread out on the floor, and then go back quickly and fetch the dog and set him upon it; open the chest and take as much money as you like.

Who acts: I, blue check apron, you · What happens: give, check, spread out, go back, fetch, set · To what, where: you, floor, dog, lip, chest, much money

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, blue check apron, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 apron	nmod:poss
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 apron	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 blue	punct
8	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 apron	compound
9	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spread	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 spread	nsubj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 spread	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 spread	aux
14	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 spread	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 floor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 floor	det
18	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spread	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 go	advmod
22	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 spread	parataxis
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fetch	cc
26	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 go	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dog	det
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fetch	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
30	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 fetch	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	obj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 open	punct
35	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 chest	det
37	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 open	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 take	cc
39	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 open	conj
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 much	advmod
41	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 money	amod
42	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 like	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 like	nsubj
45	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 take	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	I		you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	check	infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	spread out	must	my blue check apron			the floor			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
4	go back	infinitive					then	quickly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	fetch	infinitive		the dog					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
6	set	infinitive		lip				upon dog	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon it=Destination
7	open	infinitive		the chest					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme
8	take	present		much money					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
9	like	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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