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IFDC Lenguas Vivas Bariloche

Estudiantes:

*Blanco, Marina

*Herrán, Adriana

*Romaniuk, Nadia

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Task 1: Constituency tests

Choose one sentence from the story and apply at least 2 constituency tests where possible:

Sentence: “Thereupon he himself locked up the room”

Constituency test 1(replacement): Thereupon he himself locked it up.

Constituency test 2 (movement): Thereupon the room was locked up by himself.

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NP: “...the ring.”  (direct object)

VP: “found all as he had wished” (verb)

AdjP: a little man (complement)

AdvP: “Suddenly” (adverbial)

PP: until the morning (adverbial)

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NP: The ring

VP: Give me (imperative)

AdjP: little man

AdvP: so it

PP: until the morning

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1) a beautiful daughter: (indefinite)

det premodif Head noun

2) The King

det Head noun (definite)

3) The little man (definite)

det premodif head noun

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1) Poor: Stative- Gradable- Inherent- Attributive- Central.

2) beautiful: Stative-Gradable-Inherent-attributive-peripheral

3) Second: Stative-Gradable-Inherent-attributive-peripheral

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PP1: to my palace Place at type

PP2: in front of the wheel Position

PP3: in the course of this night On type: Line

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VP1: “came again for the third time”

Finite or non-finite: Finite

Stative or dynamic: Dynamic

According to verb complementation: Intensive (or copular) – Intransitive – Transitive – Ditransitive – Complex ditransitive (or bogus ditransitive): Intransitive

VP2: “took the necklace”

Finite or non-finite: Finite

Stative or dynamic: Dynamic

According to verb complementation: Intensive (or copular) – Intransitive – Transitive – Ditransitive – Complex ditransitive (or bogus ditransitive): Transitive

VP3: “Set to work”

Finite or non-finite: Non-finite

Stative or dynamic: -

According to verb complementation: Intensive (or copular) – Intransitive – Transitive – Ditransitive – Complex ditransitive (or bogus ditransitive):-

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Sentence 1: “And so it went on until the morning, when all the straw was spun, and all the reels were full of gold”.

Sentence / Main clause: When all the straw was spun

Is the sentence simple, complex or compound? Why? Compound. It’s compound because it has three clauses and one of them is linked by the coordinator “and”.

Is the main clause in the sentence transitive, intransitive, ditransitive, copular, bogus ditransitive? It's copular.

Dependent clause / clauses: -

Is it embedded or subordinate? -

Finite or non-finite? -

Function? (S, DO, A, etc)

Type of subordinate clause? (Transitive, intransitive, etc.)

Sentence 2: “Once there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter”

Sentence / Main clause: “Once there was a miller who was poor”

Is the sentence simple, complex or compound? Why? Compound

Is the main clause in the sentence transitive, intransitive, ditransitive, copular, bogus ditransitive? Copular

Dependent clause / clauses:

Is it embedded or subordinate?

Finite or non-finite?

Function? (S, DO, A, etc)

Type of subordinate clause? (Transitive, intransitive, etc.)

Sentence 3:

Sentence / Main clause: “Then promise me, if you should become queen, your first child.”

Is the sentence simple, complex or compound? Why? Complex. It contains a subordinate clause

Is the main clause in the sentence transitive, intransitive, ditransitive, copular, bogus ditransitive? Transitive

Dependent clause / clauses: “If you should become queen”

Is it embedded or subordinate? Subordinate

Finite or non-finite? Finite

Function? (S, DO, A, etc) Adverbial

Type of subordinate clause? (Transitive, intransitive, etc.) Copular