The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 50

‘To carry a little hay-rick requires no great skill,’ thought he, ‘and it will give me no trouble, for the horse will have to draw it in.

Who acts: little hay rick, skill, horse · What happens: carry, require, think, give, have, draw in · To what, where: great skill, trouble, me · 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 (little hay rick, skill, horse), 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	_	3 carry	punct
2	To	to	PART	_	3 carry	mark
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rick	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rick	amod
6	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rick	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hay	punct
8	rick	rick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 requires	nsubj
9	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	ccomp
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 skill	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 skill	amod
12	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 requires	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 carry	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 carry	punct
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thought	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 he	punct
18	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thought	ccomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 trouble	det
25	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horse	det
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 give	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 draw	mark
33	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 have	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 draw	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	33 draw	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	carry	to-infinitive				tree rules
2	require	present	a little hay rick	no great skill		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skill=Precondition
3	think speech: other	past				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	give	future	skill	no trouble	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trouble=Theme
5	have	future	the horse			tree rules
6	draw in	to-infinitive	the horse not said here	trouble		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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