The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 69

When they got home they said to their wives, ‘You needn’t begin to cook the dinner to-morrow till we send the provisions home.’

Who acts: goats, You, we · What happens: get, say, not begin, not cook, send · To what, where: dinner, provisions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (goats, You, we), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wives	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wives	nmod:poss
9	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 begin	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 begin	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 begin	nsubj
13	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 begin	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 begin	advmod
15	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cook	mark
17	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begin	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dinner	det
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cook	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 morrow	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cook	obl
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	25 send	mark
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 send	nsubj
25	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 begin	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 provisions	det
27	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 send	obj
28	home	home	ADV	_	25 send	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 begin	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	goats = goat		home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	goats = goat		to goats's wives	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	not begin	present	You			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not cook	to-infinitive	You not said here	the dinner	to morrow result	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient to morrow=Result
5	send	present	we	the provisions	home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Theme

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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