The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 79
'Leave off!' shouted the hero, 'for I am Makoma, and would like to exchange a blow with thee!'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: leave off, shout, be, like, exchange · To what, where: hero, blow
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 (you, I), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 Leave | compound:prt |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 6 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Leave | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hero | det |
| 8 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shouted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Makoma | case |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Makoma | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Makoma | cop |
| 14 | Makoma | Makoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Leave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 like | cc |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 like | aux |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Leave | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 exchange | mark |
| 20 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 like | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 blow | det |
| 22 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 exchange | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 thee | case |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 exchange | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | you not said here | the hero | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | for Makoma | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | like | would | you not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | exchange not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a blow | with thee | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent blow=Theme with thou=Co-Agent |
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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