The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 21

Load the horses with all they can carry, and return to my father, and tell him that you have done your task, and can claim me for your wife.’

Who acts: you, horses, your · What happens: load, carry, return, tell, do, claim · To what, where: horses, father, task, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horses, your), 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	Load	load	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horses	det
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Load	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Load	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carry	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 carry	aux
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 all	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 return	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 return	cc
11	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Load	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Load	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 done	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 done	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tell	advcl
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 task	nmod:poss
24	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 claim	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 claim	cc
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 claim	aux
28	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Load	parataxis
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 claim	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 wife	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wife	nmod:poss
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 claim	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Load	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Load	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	load	imperative	you not said here		the horses	with all	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with all=Theme
2	carry	can	horses = horse				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	return	infinitive				to my father result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	do	present · perfect	you	your task			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
6	claim speech: other	can		me		for your wife	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic
7	task		your				nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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