The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 55
Put some poison, if you like, into the porridge, but at least let me have a good meal before I die.'
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: put, like, let, have, die · To what, where: poison, porridge, me, least, good meal
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, me, 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 poison | det |
| 3 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 like | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 porridge | punct |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 porridge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 porridge | det |
| 11 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 least | case |
| 15 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 let | obl |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 like | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 meal | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 meal | amod |
| 21 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 die | nsubj |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | some poison | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent poison=Goal | ||||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the porridge | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot porridge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | me | least | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | infinitive | me not said here | a good meal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | ||||
| 5 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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