The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 22

‘Take this wheat, this millet, and this barley, and sow them at once, so that I may have loaves of them all to-morrow.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, sow, have · To what, where: wheat, loaves

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See 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 (you, I), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wheat	det
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 millet	punct
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 millet	det
7	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wheat	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 barley	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 barley	cc
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 barley	det
11	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sow	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sow	cc
14	sow	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sow	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 sow	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 have	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sow	conj
24	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 loaves	nmod
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 them	nmod:unmarked
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 morrow	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 to	punct
30	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 all	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	this wheat and this millet	this barley obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme
2	sow	present		wheat		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent they=Theme at once=Destination
3	have	may	I	loaves of loaves		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=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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