The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 131

You must undertake to cook my luncheon yourself and to direct what I shall have for dinner, and you shall be called assistant head cook.’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: undertake, cook, direct, have, call · To what, where: luncheon, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 undertake	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 undertake	aux
3	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cook	mark
5	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 undertake	xcomp
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 luncheon	nmod:poss
7	luncheon	luncheon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cook	obj
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 cook	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 direct	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 direct	mark
11	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 undertake	conj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 have	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 direct	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 dinner	case
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 called	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj:pass
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 called	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 called	aux:pass
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 undertake	parataxis
24	assistant	assistant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cook	amod
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cook	compound
26	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 undertake	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 undertake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	undertake	must	You			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cook	to-infinitive	You not said here	my luncheon	yourself obl	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent luncheon=Patient
3	direct	to-infinitive	You not said here			tree rules
4	have	shall	I		for dinner	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
5	call	shall · passive		you		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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