The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 211

Make some gruel of red millet, and give to it.’

Who acts: you · What happens: make, give · To what, where: gruel, millet

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 gruel	det
3	gruel	gruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 millet	case
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 millet	amod
6	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gruel	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 give	cc
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	some gruel of red millet					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gruel=Product
2	give	infinitive			millet				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=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 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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