The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 103

‘You must go and fetch all your relations, and tell them to bring plenty of sticks; then you must light a fire, and let it burn till the tower becomes red hot.

Who acts: You, fire, tower · What happens: go, fetch, tell, bring, light, let · To what, where: relations, plenty, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fire, tower), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fetch	cc
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 relations	det:predet
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 relations	nmod:poss
9	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fetch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bring	mark
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	xcomp
16	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 sticks	case
18	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 plenty	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 light	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 light	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 light	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 light	aux
23	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 light	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 let	cc
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 light	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 becomes	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tower	det
33	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 becomes	nsubj
34	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 burn	advcl
35	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hot	amod
36	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 becomes	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	You					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	infinitive	You not said here	your relations				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	You not said here		relations = relation			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here	plenty of sticks				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme
5	light	must	you	a fire		then		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
6	let	infinitive	you not said here	fire				tree rules
7	burn	infinitive	fire not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	become	present	the tower				hot property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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