The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 84

In the first place you must build me a palace to-night, the roof of purest gold, the walls of marble, and the windows of crystal; all round you must lay out a beautiful garden, with fish-ponds and artistic waterfalls.

Who acts: you · What happens: build, lay out · To what, where: palace, me, first place, beautiful garden

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 place	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 place	amod
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 build	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 build	aux
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 build	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 to	punct
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 roof	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roof	det
16	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 night	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 gold	case
18	purest	pure	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 gold	amod
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 roof	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 walls	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 walls	det
22	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 roof	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 marble	case
24	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walls	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 windows	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 windows	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 windows	det
28	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 build	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 crystal	case
30	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 windows	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
32	all	all	ADV	_	36 lay	advmod
33	round	round	ADP	_	36 lay	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 lay	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lay	aux
36	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 build	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 lay	compound:prt
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 garden	det
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 garden	amod
40	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ponds	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 ponds	case
43	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ponds	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 fish	punct
45	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lay	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 waterfalls	cc
47	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 waterfalls	amod
48	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 ponds	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 build	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	must	you	a palace	me	the first place	night	the windows of crystal obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary palace=Product
2	lay out	must	you	a beautiful garden				with fish ponds and artistic waterfalls; all property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Result

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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