The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 74

‘Now this is what you have to do: dress yourself like a Breton seeking a place as stable-boy, and go and offer your services to your father.

Who acts: this, you, Breton, your · What happens: be, have, do, dress, seek, go · To what, where: yourself, place, services, father

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, you, Breton, your), 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	_	5 what	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 what	advmod
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 dress	nsubj:outer
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 dress	punct
11	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 dress	obj
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	16 seeking	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Breton	det
15	Breton	Breton	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 seeking	nsubj
16	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 dress	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seeking	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 boy	case
20	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 stable	punct
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seeking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 go	cc
25	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 dress	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 offer	cc
27	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 go	conj
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 services	nmod:poss
29	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 offer	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 father	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 offer	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this			now		tree rules
2	have	present	you					tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dress	infinitive		yourself				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
5	seek	gerund	a Breton	a place			as stable boy	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
6	go	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	offer	infinitive		your services	your father			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent service=Theme to father=Goal
8	service		your					nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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