The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 71

‘Here is a barley-corn for you, but it’s not the kind the farmer sows in his field, or feeds the cocks and hens with, I can tell you.

Who acts: barley corn, corn, farmer, I · What happens: be, not be, sow, feed, tell · To what, where: kind, field, cocks, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (barley corn, corn, farmer, I), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 sows	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 corn	det
5	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 corn	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 barley	punct
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 corn	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 kind	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kind	nsubj
13	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 kind	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 kind	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kind	det
16	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sows	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 farmer	det
18	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sows	nsubj
19	sows	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 feeds	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 field	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 field	nmod:poss
22	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sows	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feeds	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 feeds	cc
25	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cocks	det
27	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 feeds	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hens	cc
29	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cocks	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	27 cocks	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tell	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 tell	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 tell	aux
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 feeds	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 tell	iobj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 feeds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a barley corn for you				here property	tree rules
2	not is a	present	corn	the kind				tree rules
3	sow	present	the farmer			farmer's field		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in field=Destination
4	feed	present			the cocks and hens			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	can	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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