The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 113

One day she gave Helena twelve pounds of mixed feathers and bade her separate them all before evening, threatening her with heavy punishment if she failed to do so.

Who acts: HELENA · What happens: give, mix, separate, threaten, fail, not do · To what, where: twelve pounds, Helena, pounds

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HELENA), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	iobj
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pounds	nummod
7	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 feathers	case
9	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 feathers	amod
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pounds	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bade	cc
12	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pounds	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bade	acl
14	separate	separate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 separate	obj
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 evening	advmod
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 evening	case
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 separate	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 threatening	punct
20	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 separate	advcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threatening	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 punishment	case
23	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 punishment	amod
24	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threatening	obl
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 failed	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 failed	nsubj
27	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 threatening	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 failed	xcomp
30	so	so	ADV	_	29 do	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	HELENA	twelve pounds of mixed feathers and bade	Helena	day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent helena=Recipient pound=Theme
2	mix	participle						vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	separate	infinitive	HELENA not said here	pounds = pound		evening		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	threaten	gerund	HELENA not said here	HELENA			with heavy punishment	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
5	fail a condition, not said to happen	past	HELENA					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	not do	to-infinitive	HELENA not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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