The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 21

'And it is my turn to take care of the stone,' said he, 'or it will seem as if you had done everything and I nothing.'

Who acts: burden, falcon, it, you · What happens: be, take, say, seem, do · To what, where: turn, care, everything · 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 (burden, falcon, it, you), 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 turn	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 turn	cc
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turn	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	cop
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 turn	nmod:poss
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turn	acl
9	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 seem	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seem	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 seem	aux
22	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 done	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 done	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 seem	xcomp
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 done	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 nothing	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 nothing	nsubj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 done	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 seem	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	burden	my turn		tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	falcon not said here	care	of the stone	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of stone=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	falcon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	seem	future	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	do a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you	everything		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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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