The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 103
Order me to build a smithy and I will make you a cross-bow, but from which neither the eagle in the sky nor the wild beast in the forest is safe.
Who acts: you, I, eagle · What happens: order, build, make, be · To what, where: me, smithy, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, eagle), 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 | Order | order | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Order | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 build | mark |
| 4 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Order | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 smithy | det |
| 6 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 build | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 build | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cross-bow | det |
| 13 | cross-bow | cross-bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 safe | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 safe | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 safe | obl |
| 18 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 eagle | cc:preconj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eagle | det |
| 20 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 safe | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sky | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sky | det |
| 23 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eagle | nmod |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 beast | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 beast | det |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 beast | amod |
| 27 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eagle | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 forest | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 forest | det |
| 30 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beast | nmod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 safe | cop |
| 32 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Order | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | imperative | you not said here | me | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a smithy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smithy=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | future | I | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the eagle in the sky nor the wild beast in the forest | safe property | tree rules |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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