The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 27

In the evening his master said, ‘To-morrow I have no special task to set you, but as the girl has a great deal to do in the house you must milk the black cow for her.

Who acts: master, I, girl, you · What happens: say, have, set, do, milk · To what, where: special task, you, great deal, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, I, girl, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 master	nmod:poss
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
9	To	to	ADP	_	11 morrow	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 To	punct
11	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 task	det
15	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 task	amod
16	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 set	mark
18	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 task	acl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 set	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 has	cc
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 girl	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 girl	det
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 have	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 deal	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 deal	amod
28	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 deal	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 milk	obl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 milk	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 milk	aux
36	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 do	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cow	det
38	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cow	amod
39	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 milk	appos
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cow	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	prince's master			evening		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	I	no special task			to morrow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient
3	set	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result
4	have	present	the girl	a great deal				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
5	do	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	a great deal not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	milk	must	you		the house			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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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