The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 81

By an hour before sunset you must have these sorted out into four heaps, and if a single grain is found to be in a wrong heap you have no further chance of marrying my daughter.

Who acts: you, these, further chance · What happens: have, sort out, find, be, marry · To what, where: these, four heaps, single grain, wrong heap, further chance, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, these, further chance), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obl
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 sunset	case
5	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hour	nmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 have	obj
10	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 sorted	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 heaps	case
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 heaps	nummod
14	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sorted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 found	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 grain	det
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grain	amod
20	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 found	aux:pass
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	28 heap	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 heap	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 heap	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 heap	det
27	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 heap	amod
28	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	advcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 heap	acl:relcl
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 chance	det
32	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 chance	amod
33	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 marrying	mark
35	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 chance	acl
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 daughter	nmod:poss
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 marrying	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	must	you	these		hour		tree rules
2	sort out	participle	these not said here				into four heaps goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent into heap=Goal
3	find a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		a single grain				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	is	to-infinitive			a wrong heap			tree rules
5	have	present	you	no further chance				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
6	marry	gerund	no further chance not said here	my daughter				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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