The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 36

The cook replied, ‘Yes, you can go up, but in half-an-hour you must be back here to sweep up the ashes.’

Who acts: cook, you · What happens: reply, go up, be, sweep up · To what, where: cook, ashes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cook	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cook	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 go	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 go	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hour	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 hour	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 half	case
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 hour	obl
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 hour	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hour	det
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 an	punct
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 here	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 here	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 here	cop
23	back	back	ADV	_	24 here	advmod
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 hour	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sweep	mark
26	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 here	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 sweep	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ashes	det
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sweep	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle		the cook not said here		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go up	can	the cook			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	must	you		here property	tree rules
4	sweep up	to-infinitive	you not said here	the ashes		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ash=Trajectory

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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