The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 34

It is my father's axe you are sitting on, and I must take it back as fast as I can, or I shall get a terrible scolding from my stepmother.'

Who acts: nest, you, I · What happens: be, sit on, take back, get · To what, where: axe, nest, terrible scolding

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 (nest, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 axe	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 axe	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 axe	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 father	case
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sitting	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 axe	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 sitting	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 axe	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 take	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 can	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 can	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fast	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 get	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 scolding	det
29	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 scolding	amod
30	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 stepmother	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 stepmother	nmod:poss
33	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 axe	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 axe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	nest	my father's axe		tree rules
2	sit on	present · progressive	you	my father's axe not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location axe=Theme
3	take back	must	I	nest	fast property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	get	shall	I	a terrible scolding	from my stepmother	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent scolding=Theme from stepmother=Source

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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