The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 135
'If you take my advice,' answered the old man, 'you will kill a cow, and invite all the jackals in the forest to the feast.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, answer, kill, invite · To what, where: advice, old man, cow, jackals, forest
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), 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 | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 advice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 kill | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 kill | aux |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cow | det |
| 19 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kill | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 invite | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 invite | cc |
| 22 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kill | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 jackals | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jackals | det |
| 25 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 invite | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 invite | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 feast | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 feast | det |
| 31 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 forest | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | you | my advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the old man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | kill | future | you | a cow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | invite | infinitive | you not said here | all jackals | the forest to the feast | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=Recipient |
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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