The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 72
Yes, it is true I have many beautiful things; but if you want to give me a present--and to-morrow is my birthday--there IS one thing that I wish for very much.'
Who acts: it, I, you, one thing · What happens: be, have, want, give, wish · To what, where: many beautiful things, present, me, birthday, one thing
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 (it, I, you, one thing), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 true | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 true | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | ccomp |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 want | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 want | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 want | nsubj |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 want | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 present | det |
| 20 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 birthday | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 birthday | cc |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 morrow | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 to | punct |
| 25 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 birthday | obl |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 birthday | cop |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 28 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 true | conj |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 IS | punct |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 IS | expl |
| 31 | IS | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | conj |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 thing | nummod |
| 33 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 IS | nsubj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 wish | obj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 wish | nsubj |
| 36 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 thing | acl:relcl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 much | case |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 much | advmod |
| 39 | much | much | ADV | _ | 36 wish | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | many beautiful things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a present | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient present=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a | present | my birthday | to morrow | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | present | one thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wish | present | I | one thing | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
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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