The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 23

'I have dropped my axe in the forest, bid your daughter go and fetch it, for mine has worked hard all day and is both wet and weary.'

Who acts: I, mine · What happens: drop, bid, go, fetch, work, be · To what, where: axe, forest, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mine), 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	_	4 dropped	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	aux
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 axe	nmod:poss
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bid	punct
11	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	parataxis
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bid	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bid	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fetch	cc
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fetch	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 worked	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 worked	mark
20	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 worked	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 worked	aux
22	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 fetch	advcl
23	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 worked	advmod
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 worked	obl:unmarked
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wet	cc
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 wet	cop
28	both	both	CCONJ	_	29 wet	cc:preconj
29	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 worked	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 weary	cc
31	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wet	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present · perfect	I	my axe	the forest			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent axe=Theme in forest=Destination
2	bid	infinitive		your daughter				tree rules
3	go	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive		axe				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	work	present · perfect	mine			day	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	mine not said here				wet property	tree rules
7	be		mine not said here					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 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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