The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 4

To which their mother replied: ‘Do as you like, but see that you choose good housewives, who will look carefully after your affairs; and, to make certain of this, take with you these three skeins of flax, and give it to them to spin.

Who acts: mother, you, good housewives · What happens: reply, do, like, see, choose, look · To what, where: good housewives, three skeins, flax, sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, you, good housewives), 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	To	to	PART	_	5 replied	mark
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 replied	obj
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Do	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Do	punct
8	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 replied	ccomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Do	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Do	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 choose	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 choose	nsubj
17	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	advcl
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 housewives	amod
19	housewives	housewife	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 choose	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 look	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 look	aux
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 housewives	acl
24	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	23 look	advmod
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 affairs	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 affairs	nmod:poss
27	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 look	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 make	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	parataxis
33	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 make	xcomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 this	case
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 certain	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 take	punct
37	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 make	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 take	obl
40	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 skeins	det
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 skeins	nummod
42	skeins	skein	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 take	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 flax	case
44	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 skeins	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 give	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 give	cc
47	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 make	parataxis
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 give	obj
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 them	case
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 give	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 spin	mark
52	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 give	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	sons's mother					tree rules
2	do	infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	like	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	see	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	choose	present	you	good housewives				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housewife=Theme
6	look	future	good housewives			after your affairs	carefully property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	make	to-infinitive					certain property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
8	take	infinitive		this three skeins of flax			with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skein=Theme
9	give	infinitive		flax	sons = son			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient
10	spin	to-infinitive						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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