The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 6

In the same way I had to carry the twenty-four handfuls of hay to the stable, and then it was supper time, and I had to wait upon all the others.

Who acts: I, task · What happens: have, carry, be, wait · To what, where: same way, four handfuls, stable, supper time, others

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (I, task), 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 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 carry	mark
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 handfuls	det
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 four	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 twenty	punct
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 handfuls	nummod
13	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carry	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 hay	case
15	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handfuls	nmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 stable	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stable	det
18	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 time	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 time	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 time	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 time	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 time	cop
24	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	compound
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 wait	mark
31	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 others	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 others	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 others	det
35	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 wait	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	I		the same way		tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	I not said here	the four handfuls of hay	the stable		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent handful=Theme to stable=Destination
3	is a	past	task	supper time		then	tree rules
4	have	past	I				tree rules
5	wait	to-infinitive	I not said here		all others		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon other=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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