The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 45
'Yes, of course I shall mind; but I will spend the day in planning out some new dresses; and then it will be so delightful when you come back, you know!'
Who acts: I, course, you · What happens: mind, spend, plan out, be, come back, know · To what, where: new dresses
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 (I, course, 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 | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 mind | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 mind | mark |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 mind | aux |
| 8 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 spend | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 spend | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 spend | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 spend | aux |
| 13 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mind | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spend | obj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 planning | mark |
| 17 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 spend | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 planning | compound:prt |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 dresses | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dresses | amod |
| 21 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 planning | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 delightful | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 delightful | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 delightful | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 delightful | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 delightful | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 delightful | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 delightful | advmod |
| 29 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mind | parataxis |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 come | advmod |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 come | nsubj |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 delightful | advcl |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 come | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 know | punct |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 know | nsubj |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mind | advcl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | shall | I | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | spend | future | I | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | plan out | gerund | I not said here | some new dresses | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | future | course | then | delightful property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come back | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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/pg3027/14/45/