The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 91
I will teach you to divide things in that manner!'
Who acts: I · What happens: teach, divide · To what, where: you, things, manner
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 teach | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 teach | aux |
| 3 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 teach | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 divide | mark |
| 6 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 teach | xcomp |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 divide | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 manner | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 manner | det |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 divide | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 teach | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | divide | to-infinitive | I not said here | things | that manner | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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