The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 7
But if you will inform me what it is you wish them to do I shall be better able to judge who is most fitted for the post.'
Who acts: you, it, I · What happens: inform, be, do, judge, fit · To what, where: me, them
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 (you, it, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 inform | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 inform | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 inform | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 inform | aux |
| 5 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 inform | iobj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 inform | obj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wish | cop |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 able | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 able | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | cop |
| 18 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 able | advmod |
| 19 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 do | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 judge | mark |
| 21 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | xcomp |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fitted | aux:pass |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 fitted | advmod |
| 25 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 judge | ccomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 post | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 post | det |
| 28 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fitted | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inform | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 inform | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | future | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | them = they | wish property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | shall | I | able, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | judge | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fit | present · passive | for the post | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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