The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 128
To-night, when it is quite dark, you shall show me the place.'
Who acts: judgment, you · What happens: be, show · To what, where: place, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judgment, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 show | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 dark | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dark | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dark | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 dark | advmod |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 show | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dark | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 show | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 show | aux |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 show | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 show | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | judgment | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | shall | you | the place | me | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient place=Topic |
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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