The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 20
'Only wait till to-morrow,' said the shepherd, 'and I will give you the biggest sheep you ever saw.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, say, give, see · To what, where: shepherd, biggest sheep, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 wait | advmod |
| 3 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 morrow | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 morrow | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wait | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shepherd | det |
| 12 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wait | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sheep | det |
| 21 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 sheep | amod |
| 22 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 saw | advmod |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sheep | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | till morrow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | the shepherd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shepherd=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | future | I | the biggest sheep | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sheep=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | past | you | the biggest sheep not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus |
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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