The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 133

He who has fowls, let him take fowls; he who has a goat, let him take a goat; he who has rice, let him take rice.’

Who acts: youth, you · What happens: fowl, let, take, have · To what, where: youth, fowls, goat, rice

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fowls	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 fowls	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fowls	aux
4	fowls	fowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fowls	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 take	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 goat	det
15	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 goat	det
21	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 has	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
26	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
28	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	fowl	present	youth			vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	imperative	you not said here	youth		tree rules
3	take	infinitive	youth not said here	fowls		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Theme
4	have	present	youth	a goat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
5	let	infinitive	you not said here	youth		tree rules
6	take	infinitive	youth not said here		a goat	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goat=Destination
7	have	present	youth	rice		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
8	let	infinitive	you not said here	youth		tree rules
9	take	infinitive	youth not said here	rice		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Theme

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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