The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 42
For though you cannot tend cows, or divide the grain from the chaff, there may be other things that you can do better.
Who acts: you, other things · What happens: not tend, divide, be, do · To what, where: cows, grain, other things
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, other things), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 tend | mark |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 tend | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tend | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tend | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 tend | advmod |
| 6 | tend | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 divide | advcl |
| 7 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tend | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 divide | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 divide | cc |
| 10 | divide | divide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grain | det |
| 12 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 divide | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 chaff | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chaff | det |
| 15 | chaff | chaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 divide | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 be | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 be | expl |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 divide | conj |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 be | nsubj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 do | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 things | acl:relcl |
| 26 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 do | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 divide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tend | can | you | cows | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | divide | imperative | you not said here | the grain | from the chaff | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent grain=Patient from chaff=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | be | may | other things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | can | you | other things | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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