The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 54
Still, I will give you some payment, therefore go up into the loft, and choose for yourself one of the caskets that lies there.
Who acts: I, caskets · What happens: give, go up, choose, lie · To what, where: payment, you, loft, one
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 (I, caskets), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 payment | det |
| 8 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 10 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 loft | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 loft | det |
| 15 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 choose | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 choose | cc |
| 18 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 yourself | case |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 choose | obl |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 choose | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 caskets | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 caskets | det |
| 24 | caskets | casket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 lies | nsubj |
| 26 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 caskets | acl:relcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 lies | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | some payment | you | still | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient payment=Theme | ||
| 2 | go up | infinitive | I not said here | the loft | therefore property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | choose | infinitive | I not said here | one of the caskets | for yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | lie | present | the caskets | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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