The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 39

The next day he went back to the wood with his beasts, and the robber told her that she must take a much stouter cord to bind his thumbs with.

Who acts: back, robber, sister · What happens: go back, tell, take, bind · To what, where: sister, stouter cord, thumbs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, robber, sister), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 beasts	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beasts	nmod:poss
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wood	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 robber	det
16	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 take	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cord	det
24	much	much	ADV	_	25 stouter	advmod
25	stouter	stout	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 cord	amod
26	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 bind	mark
28	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 take	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 thumbs	nmod:poss
30	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bind	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	28 bind	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	back			day	to the wood with back's beasts result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	the robber		sister			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take not said to happen	must	sister	a stouter cord				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme
4	bind	to-infinitive	sister not said here	back's thumbs				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumb=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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