The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 19

I’ll tell all the other cooks that I am fattening up a goose on very special food for the grand duke, and at the first good opportunity I will set you free.’

Who acts: I, other cooks · What happens: tell, fatten up, set · To what, where: other cooks, goose, special food, you, first good opportunity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other cooks), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cooks	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cooks	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cooks	amod
7	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fattening	nsubj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fattening	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fattening	aux
11	fattening	fatten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cooks	acl:relcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 fattening	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 goose	det
14	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fattening	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 food	case
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 special	advmod
17	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 food	amod
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fattening	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 duke	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 duke	det
21	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 duke	amod
22	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 food	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	29 opportunity	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 opportunity	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 opportunity	amod
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 opportunity	amod
29	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 set	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 set	aux
32	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 set	obj
34	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 set	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	all other cooks			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient
2	fatten up	present · progressive	all other cooks	a goose	special food for the grand duke		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent goose=Patient
3	set	future	I	you	the first good opportunity	free property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme at opportunity=Destination

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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