The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 9

When you have filled the manger as full as it will hold you must weave a strong plait of the rushes which grow among the meadow hay, and cut a thick peg of stout wood, and be sure that the horse sees what you are doing.

Who acts: you, manger, rushes, horse · What happens: fill, hold, weave, grow, cut, be · To what, where: manger, strong plait, meadow hay, thick peg · 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 (you, manger, rushes, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 filled	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 filled	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	aux
4	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 manger	det
6	manger	manger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	obj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 full	advmod
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 manger	amod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 hold	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hold	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hold	aux
12	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 full	advcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 weave	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 weave	aux
15	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hold	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 plait	det
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plait	amod
18	plait	plait	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weave	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 rushes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rushes	det
21	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 plait	nmod
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 grow	nsubj
23	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 rushes	acl:relcl
24	among	among	ADP	_	27 hay	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hay	det
26	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hay	compound
27	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grow	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cut	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cut	cc
30	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 peg	det
32	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 peg	amod
33	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cut	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wood	amod
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 peg	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sure	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sure	cc
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 sure	cop
40	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cut	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 sees	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 horse	det
43	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sees	nsubj
44	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 sure	ccomp
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 doing	obj
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 doing	nsubj
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 doing	aux
48	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 sees	ccomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fill	present · perfect	you	the manger			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent manger=Patient
2	hold	future	manger				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	weave	must	you	a strong plait of the rushes			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plait=Product
4	grow	present	the rushes		the meadow hay		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among hay=Location
5	cut	past		a thick peg of stout wood			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peg=Product
6	is	infinitive				sure property	tree rules
7	see	present	the horse				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	do	present · progressive	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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