The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 4
If it is anything in our power, tell us, and we will do it.'
Who acts: head, you, we · What happens: be, tell, do · To what, where: anything, power, us, head · 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 (head, you, we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 anything | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 anything | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 anything | cop |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 tell | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 power | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 power | nmod:poss |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anything | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 anything | punct |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | head | anything | our power | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | future | we | head | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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