The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 111

'Now go and lay them in the sun out there,' said he; 'in a couple of hours they will be ready to put on; but do not attempt to wear them before, or you will feel them most uncomfortable.

Who acts: you, Jackal, shoes · What happens: go, lay, say, be, put on, not attempt · To what, where: couple, shoes, sun, hours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Jackal, shoes), 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	_	3 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lay	cc
5	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
10	out	out	ADV	_	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lay	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 couple	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 couple	det
20	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 hours	case
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 couple	nmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ready	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 ready	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 ready	cop
26	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hours	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 put	mark
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ready	xcomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	28 put	compound:prt
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 attempt	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 attempt	cc
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 attempt	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 attempt	advmod
34	attempt	attempt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 wear	mark
36	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 attempt	xcomp
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wear	obj
38	before	before	ADV	_	36 wear	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 feel	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 feel	cc
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 feel	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 feel	aux
43	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 attempt	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 feel	obj
45	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	46 uncomfortable	advmod
46	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 feel	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		a couple of hours	now		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in couple=Location
2	lay	infinitive	you not said here	shoes = shoe	the sun; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in sun=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Jackal					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	future	shoes = shoe	hours not said here			ready property	tree rules
5	put on	to-infinitive	shoes = shoe not said here					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	not attempt	infinitive · do-support						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	not wear	to-infinitive		shoes = shoe			before property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
8	feel	future	you	shoes = shoe			uncomfortable property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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