The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 82

Ask your sisters to give you the heart of the dead goat, and bury it in the earth before the house-door; that will bring you good luck.’

Who acts: you, that · What happens: ask, give, bury, bring · To what, where: sisters, heart, you, earth, good luck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sisters	nmod:poss
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heart	det
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 goat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goat	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 goat	amod
12	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heart	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bury	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bury	cc
15	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bury	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 earth	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 earth	det
19	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bury	obl
20	before	before	ADP	_	24 door	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 door	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 house	punct
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bury	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 bring	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 bring	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 bring	aux
28	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 bring	obj
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 luck	amod
31	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bring	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 bring	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		your sisters			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the heart of the dead goat	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient heart=Theme
3	bury	infinitive	you not said here	heart		the earth	before the house door	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in earth=Destination
4	bring	future	that	good luck	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=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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