The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 71
'Nay, I will not slay the son of my brother.'
Who acts: I · What happens: not slay · To what, where: son
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 (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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 slay | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 slay | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 slay | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 slay | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 slay | advmod |
| 7 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slay | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slay | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not slay | future | I | the son of my brother | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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