The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 60

Eat and sleep, for to-morrow six of us start in search of fresh wool to weave, and we pray you to give us your company.'

Who acts: you, we · What happens: eat, sleep, start, weave, pray, give · To what, where: search, you, company, us, fresh wool

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sleep	cc
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 start	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 morrow	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 morrow	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 to	punct
8	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 start	obl
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 morrow	flat
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 six	nmod
12	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 search	case
14	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 start	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 wool	case
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wool	amod
17	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 search	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 weave	mark
19	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 start	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pray	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pray	cc
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 pray	nsubj
23	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 pray	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pray	advcl
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 company	nmod:poss
29	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Eat	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	infinitive	you not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	start	present				search of fresh wool	for morrow	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	weave	to-infinitive						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pray	present	we	you				tree rules
6	give	to-infinitive	we not said here	your company	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient company=Theme
7	search			fresh wool				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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