The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 198

Now you must set to work at your linen for your dowry, for nothing must be lacking if you are to become the wife of our neighbour, the mole!’

Who acts: you, nothing · What happens: set, work, lack, be · To what, where: linen, wife

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nothing), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 set	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux
4	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 linen	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 linen	nmod:poss
9	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 dowry	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dowry	nmod:poss
12	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lacking	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 lacking	mark
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 lacking	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 lacking	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 lacking	aux
18	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 work	advcl
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 become	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 become	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 become	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 become	mark
23	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lacking	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wife	det
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 become	xcomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 neighbour	case
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 neighbour	nmod:poss
28	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wife	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mole	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mole	det
31	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wife	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	must	you			now		tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	you not said here		your linen		for your dowry	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dowry=Beneficiary
3	lack	must · progressive	nothing					tree rules
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the wife of our neighbour and the mole			become property	tree rules

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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