The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 58
'Not one clod of earth shall ever be yours if this day you do not take on yourself the vows that were taken by the king your father.'
Who acts: one clod, you, king · What happens: be, not take on, take · To what, where: yours, yourself, vows
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 (one clod, you, king), 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 | _ | 10 yours | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 clod | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 clod | nummod |
| 4 | clod | clod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yours | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clod | nmod |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 yours | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 yours | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 yours | cop |
| 10 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 take | advmod |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 yours | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 take | compound:prt |
| 19 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vows | det |
| 21 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 take | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 vows | acl:relcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obl |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 yours | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 yours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | shall | one clod of earth | yours | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not take on a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | yourself | day | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past · passive | the king | the vows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Theme father=Destination |
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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