The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 117
'To-morrow,' said he, 'you will fly to the palace where the ogre lies, and while he is asleep you will search all about him for a stone on which is engraved strange signs; this you will bring to me.
Who acts: falcon, you, ogre, this · What happens: say, fly, lie, be, search, engrave · To what, where: strange signs, stone, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (falcon, you, ogre, this), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 fly | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fly | aux |
| 13 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fly | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 lies | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ogre | det |
| 19 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lies | nsubj |
| 20 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 palace | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 search | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 search | cc |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 asleep | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 asleep | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 asleep | cop |
| 26 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 search | advcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 search | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 search | aux |
| 29 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fly | conj |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 search | advmod |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 search | obl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 stone | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 stone | det |
| 35 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 search | obl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 engraved | obl |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 engraved | aux:pass |
| 39 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 stone | acl:relcl |
| 40 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 signs | amod |
| 41 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 engraved | obj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 bring | punct |
| 43 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 bring | nsubj |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 bring | nsubj |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 bring | aux |
| 46 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 me | case |
| 48 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 bring | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | falcon | to morrow | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to morrow=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly | future | you | to the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | the ogre | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | falcon | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | search | future | you | about falcon; for a stone; all property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent about he=Location for stone=Theme | ||||
| 6 | engrave | present · passive | strange signs | a stone | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: sign=Theme on which=Destination | ||||
| 7 | bring | future | this | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to i=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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