The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 12
'Your orders shall be obeyed,' replied the rat.
Who acts: rat, Your · What happens: obey, reply, order · To what, where: orders
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 (rat, Your), 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 | _ | 6 obeyed | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 orders | nmod:poss |
| 3 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 obeyed | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 6 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obeyed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rat | det |
| 11 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | shall · passive | Your orders | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the rat | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | order | Your | nom order «communication 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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