The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 103
Would that I could put an end to him and his murdering and his slaying.'
Who acts: I, Manus · What happens: put, slay · To what, where: end, Manus
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Manus), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 murdering | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 murdering | nmod:poss |
| 12 | murdering | murdering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 him | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slaying | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 slaying | nmod:poss |
| 15 | slaying | slaying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 him | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | could | I | a end | Manus | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 2 | slay | Manus | nom slaying «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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