The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 114

‘Take this scythe and cut as much grass as the white horse will want for its day’s feed, and clean out its stall.

Who acts: you, white horse · What happens: take, cut, want, clean out · To what, where: scythe, much grass, stall

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, white horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:772): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 scythe	det
4	scythe	scythe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cut	cc
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grass	amod
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 want	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 horse	amod
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 much	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 feed	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 day	nmod:poss
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feed	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 day	case
20	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 clean	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 clean	cc
23	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 clean	compound:prt
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 stall	nmod:poss
26	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clean	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	this scythe		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scythe=Theme
2	cut	infinitive	you not said here	much grass		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grass=Product
3	want	future	the white horse		for grass's day's feed	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	clean out	infinitive	you not said here	grass's stall		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stall=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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