The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 53

In the North Sea lies a dead sea-cat--that shall be their roast meat; and the rib of a whale--that shall be their silver spoon; and the hollow foot of a dead horse--that shall be their wineglass.’

Who acts: that · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: dead sea cat, North Sea, roast meat, silver spoon, wineglass

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 Sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sea	det
3	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sea	compound
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lies	obl
5	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cat	amod
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cat	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sea	punct
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lies	obj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 meat	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 meat	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 meat	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 meat	cop
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 meat	nmod:poss
16	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meat	compound
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cat	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 rib	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rib	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rib	det
21	rib	rib	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lies	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 whale	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 whale	det
24	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rib	nmod
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 spoon	punct
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 spoon	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 spoon	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 spoon	cop
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 spoon	nmod:poss
30	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spoon	compound
31	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rib	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 foot	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 foot	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 foot	det
35	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 foot	amod
36	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lies	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 horse	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 horse	det
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 horse	amod
40	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 foot	nmod
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	46 wineglass	punct
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 wineglass	nsubj
43	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 wineglass	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 wineglass	cop
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 wineglass	nmod:poss
46	wineglass	wineglass	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 horse	appos
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lies	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 lies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	present		a dead sea cat and cat's roast meat	the North Sea	the hollow foot of a dead horse obl	tree rules
2	is a	shall	that	cat's roast meat			tree rules
3	is a	shall	that	cat's silver spoon			tree rules
4	is a	shall	that	cat's wineglass			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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