The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 78
For you know that the lantern's rays shed no light down there.'
Who acts: you, rays, lantern · What happens: know, shed, ray · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rays, lantern), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 know | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ' | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 shed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lantern | det |
| 6 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rays | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 lantern | case |
| 8 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shed | nsubj |
| 9 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 light | det |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shed | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 there | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 shed | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | shed | past | the lantern's rays | no light | there | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Source | |||
| 3 | ray | the lantern | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/16/78/