The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 26

The slave trade might take a Greek to Persia, a Persian to Greece; an Egyptian woman to Phoenicia; a Babylonian to Egypt; a Scandinavian child might be carried with the amber from the Baltic to the Adriatic; or a Sidonian to Ophir, wherever Ophir may have been; while the Portuguese may have borne their tales to South Africa, or to Asia, and thence brought back other tales to Egypt.

Who acts: slave trade, Portuguese, children · What happens: take, carry, bear, bring back, tell · To what, where: Greek, Persia, Scandinavian child, Adriatic, Baltic, tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave trade, Portuguese, children), 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	3 trade	det
2	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trade	compound
3	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Greek	det
7	Greek	greek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Persia	case
9	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Persian	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Persian	det
12	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Persia	amod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Greece	case
14	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Persian	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 woman	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Phoenicia	case
20	Phoenicia	Phoenicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 woman	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 Babylonian	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Babylonian	det
23	Babylonian	Babylonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Egypt	case
25	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Babylonian	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 carried	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
28	Scandinavian	scandinavian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	nsubj:pass
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 carried	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 carried	aux:pass
32	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 take	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 amber	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 amber	det
35	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 Baltic	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Baltic	det
38	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 Adriatic	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Adriatic	det
41	Adriatic	Adriatic	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 Sidonian	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 Sidonian	cc
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 Sidonian	det
45	Sidonian	Sidonian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 Ophir	case
47	Ophir	Ophir	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Sidonian	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 been	punct
49	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	53 been	advmod
50	Ophir	Ophir	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 been	nsubj
51	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 been	aux
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 been	aux
53	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 Sidonian	acl:relcl
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 borne	punct
55	while	while	SCONJ	_	60 borne	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Portuguese	det
57	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 borne	nsubj
58	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 borne	aux
59	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 borne	aux
60	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 take	csubj
61	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 tales	nmod:poss
62	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 borne	obj
63	to	to	ADP	_	65 Africa	case
64	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 Africa	compound
65	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 tales	nmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 Asia	punct
67	or	or	CCONJ	_	69 Asia	cc
68	to	to	ADP	_	69 Asia	case
69	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 tales	nmod
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 brought	punct
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 brought	cc
72	thence	thence	ADV	_	73 brought	advmod
73	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	60 borne	conj
74	back	back	ADV	_	73 brought	advmod
75	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	76 tales	amod
76	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 brought	obj
77	to	to	ADP	_	78 Egypt	case
78	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	73 brought	obl
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	might	the slave trade	a Greek	Persia		a Egyptian woman to Phoenicia obl; a Babylonian to Egypt obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument greek=Theme sidonian=Destination
2	carry	might · passive		a Scandinavian child	the Adriatic	the Baltic	with the amber	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from baltic=Initial_Location to adriatic=Destination
3	bear	may · perfect	the Portuguese	children's tales			to South Africa; to Asia	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient
4	bring back	participle	the Portuguese not said here	other tales	Egypt		thence property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tale=Theme to egypt=Destination
5	tell		children = child				to South Africa; to Asia	nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl to=obl

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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