The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 27
'Wake up,' they said, 'and give us that sheep.
Who acts: jackals · What happens: wake up, say, give · To what, where: us · 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 (jackals), 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 | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
| 2 | Wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Wake | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | that | that | ADP | _ | 14 sheep | case |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | jackals = jackal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | jackals = jackal not said here | us | that sheep | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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