Estudiantes:

*Blanco, Marina

*Herrán, Adriana

*Romaniuk, Nadia

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.

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

AdjP: a little man (complement)

AdvP: “Suddenly” (adverbial)

PP: until the morning (adverbial)

• 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):-

det premodif Head noun

2) The King

det Head noun (definite)

3) The little man (definite)

det premodif head noun

VP: Give me (imperative)

AdjP: little man

AdvP: so it

PP: until the morning

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

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

PP2: in front of the wheel Position

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

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