The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 71

The first thing I shall ask you to do is to bring me a piece of linen a hundred yards long, so fine that it will go through a gold ring.’

Who acts: I, first thing, thing · What happens: ask, do, be, go · To what, where: first thing, you, gold ring

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first thing, thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	nsubj:outer
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ask	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thing	acl:relcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ask	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ask	xcomp
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bring	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bring	mark
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 bring	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 piece	det
15	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 linen	case
17	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 piece	nmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hundred	det
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 yards	nummod
20	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 long	obl:unmarked
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 linen	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fine	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 fine	advmod
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bring	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 fine	csubj
29	through	through	ADP	_	32 ring	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ring	det
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ring	compound
32	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	shall	I	the first thing not said here	you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the first thing not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the first thing				bring property	tree rules
4	be		the first thing not said here					tree rules
5	go	future	thing			a gold ring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through ring=Initial_Location

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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