The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 112

You talk of seeking your fortunes so as not to be a burden on our mother, and you begin by carrying off all the food she has in the house!'

Who acts: You, Heaven · What happens: talk, seek, not be, begin, carry off, have · To what, where: fortunes, burden, food, house

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Heaven), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 talk	nsubj
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 seeking	mark
4	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 talk	advcl
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fortunes	nmod:poss
6	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seeking	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	13 burden	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 burden	mark
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 burden	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	13 burden	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 burden	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 burden	det
13	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeking	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 mother	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burden	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 begin	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 begin	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 begin	nsubj
20	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	conj
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 carrying	mark
22	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 begin	advcl
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 carrying	compound:prt
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 food	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 food	det
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carrying	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 food	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 house	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 has	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	present	You				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seek	gerund	You not said here	your fortunes			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme
3	not is a	to-infinitive		a burden		on our mother	tree rules
4	begin	present	you				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	carry off	gerund	you not said here	all food			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
6	have	present	Heaven	all food not said here	the house		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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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