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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 123

'Choose what you will,' said the man; and Manus unhooked a sword and tried it across his knee, and it broke, and so did the next, and the next.

Who acts: man, Manus, sword · What happens: choose, say, unhook, try, break, do · To what, where: sword, knee, next · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, Manus, sword), 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

punctccompobjnsubjacl:relclpunctpunctdetnsubjpunctccnsubjparataxisdetobjccconjobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccnsubjparataxispunctccadvmodadvcldetobjpunctccdetconjpunctroot'PUNCTChooseVERBwhatPRONyouPRONwillAUX,PUNCT'PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETmanNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJManusPROPNunhookedVERBaDETswordNOUNandCCONJtriedVERBitPRONacrossADPhisPRONkneeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJitPRONbrokeVERB,PUNCTandCCONJsoADVdidVERBtheDETnextADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETnextADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1''PUNCT_2 Choosepunct
2ChoosechooseVERBVerbForm=Inf8 saidccomp
3whatwhatPRONPronType=Int2 Chooseobj
4youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs5 willnsubj
5willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin3 whatacl:relcl
6,,PUNCT_2 Choosepunct
7''PUNCT_2 Choosepunct
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 mandet
10manmanNOUNNumber=Sing8 saidnsubj
11;;PUNCT_14 unhookedpunct
12andandCCONJ_14 unhookedcc
13ManusManusPROPNNumber=Sing14 unhookednsubj
14unhookedunhookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 saidparataxis
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 sworddet
16swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing14 unhookedobj
17andandCCONJ_18 triedcc
18triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 unhookedconj
19ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 triedobj
20acrossacrossADP_22 kneecase
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 kneenmod:poss
22kneekneeNOUNNumber=Sing18 triedobl
23,,PUNCT_26 brokepunct
24andandCCONJ_26 brokecc
25ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 brokensubj
26brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 saidparataxis
27,,PUNCT_30 didpunct
28andandCCONJ_30 didcc
29sosoADV_30 didadvmod
30diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 brokeadvcl
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 nextdet
32nextnextADJDegree=Pos30 didobj
33,,PUNCT_36 nextpunct
34andandCCONJ_36 nextcc
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 nextdet
36nextnextADJDegree=Pos26 brokeconj
37..PUNCT_8 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1chooseinfinitivevn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2say speech: assertpastthe manvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3unhookpastManusa swordvn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
4trypastManus not said hereswordman's kneevn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5breakpastswordvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6dopastsword not said herethe nextvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent next=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.

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