The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 118
'To be sure I will make it, if ever I am king,' answered Manus. '
Who acts: I · What happens: be, make, answer · To what, where: sword, king, 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), 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 | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 4 sure | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 king | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 ever | mark |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 king | advcl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 king | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 king | cop |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 18 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | future | I | sword | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Manus | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent manus=Eventuality |
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/pg3027/15/118/