The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 58

Then I called to them, “Why don’t you bring out our mare, which is as tall as two days, and as broad as half a day, and make a shade for yourselves?”

Who acts: I, reapers, mare · What happens: call, not bring out, be, make · To what, where: reapers, mare, shade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, reapers, mare), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct
8	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 bring	advmod
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bring	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 bring	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 bring	nsubj
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 bring	compound:prt
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mare	nmod:poss
15	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tall	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 tall	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tall	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 tall	advmod
20	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mare	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 days	case
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 days	nummod
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tall	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 broad	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 broad	cc
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 broad	advmod
27	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 called	conj
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 day	case
29	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	31 day	det:predet
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broad	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 make	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 make	cc
34	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 shade	det
36	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 yourselves	case
38	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 make	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 make	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: ask	past	I		reapers = reaper	then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
2	not bring out in a quote	present · do-support	reapers = reaper	our mare				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mare=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	our mare			day	tall property	tree rules
4	make in a quote	infinitive	I not said here	a shade			for reapers = reaper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent shade=Product for yourselves=Asset

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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