The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 78

'Come hither, my son,' said he; 'I know myself well to be dying, and I have nothing to leave you but my falcon, my cat and my greyhound; but if you make good use of them you will never lack food.

Who acts: man, I, you · What happens: come, say, know, die, have, leave · To what, where: myself, nothing, you, good use, food, plans · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, I, you), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	hither	hither	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 know	obj
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 know	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	19 dying	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 dying	aux
19	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 well	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	conj
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 have	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 leave	mark
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 nothing	acl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 leave	obj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 falcon	cc
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 falcon	nmod:poss
30	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nothing	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cat	punct
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 cat	nmod:poss
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 greyhound	cc
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 greyhound	nmod:poss
36	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cat	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 make	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 make	cc
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 make	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 make	nsubj
41	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 use	amod
43	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 make	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 use	nmod
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 lack	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 lack	aux
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 lack	advmod
49	lack	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 make	xcomp
50	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lack	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive			my son vocative; hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	I	myself	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus
4	die	to-infinitive · progressive	I not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	have	present	I	nothing	my cat and my greyhound obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	leave	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	make a condition, not said to happen	present	you	good use of plans		tree rules
8	not lack	future	you	food		tree rules
9	use			plans = plan		nom use «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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