The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 52
But now your daughter shall stay at home, and mine shall go and bring it back'; and throwing a cloak over the girl's shoulders, she bade her hasten to the forest.
Who acts: daughter, mine, stepmother · What happens: stay, go, bring back, throw, bade, hasten · To what, where: home, cloak, shoulders, buffalo, forest
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 (daughter, mine, stepmother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 stay | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stay | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 11 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stay | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bring | cc |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 bring | advmod |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 bade | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bade | cc |
| 21 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 bade | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cloak | det |
| 23 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 throwing | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 shoulders | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 girl | case |
| 28 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 throwing | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 throwing | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bade | nsubj |
| 31 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | advcl |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bade | obj |
| 33 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 bade | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 forest | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 forest | det |
| 36 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hasten | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | shall | your daughter | home | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | go | shall | mine | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring back | infinitive | mine not said here | home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | gerund | stepmother not said here | a cloak | the girl's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 5 | bade | past | stepmother | buffalo | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hasten | infinitive | stepmother not said here | the forest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to forest=Destination |
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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