The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 31
'Nothing but to build a palace of ice wherein fires can burn that shall keep it so warm that the most delicate singing-birds can live in it!'
Who acts: Nothing, fires, delicate singing birds · What happens: build, burn, keep, live · To what, where: palace, that
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 (Nothing, fires, delicate singing birds), 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 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 build | cc |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 build | mark |
| 5 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Nothing | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ice | case |
| 9 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | nmod |
| 10 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 burn | advmod |
| 11 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 burn | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 burn | aux |
| 13 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 build | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 burn | obj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 warm | advmod |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 live | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 birds | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 delicate | advmod |
| 23 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 birds | amod |
| 24 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 birds | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 singing | punct |
| 26 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 live | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 live | aux |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 warm | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 live | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | a palace of ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product | ||||
| 2 | burn | can | fires | that | wherein property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 3 | keep | shall | Nothing | palace | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | live | can | the delicate singing birds | palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/31/