The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 43
If she likes it she can take it, if not, she can leave it.'
Who acts: sun · What happens: like, not take, leave · To what, where: part
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 (sun), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 likes | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 likes | nsubj |
| 3 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 likes | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 not | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 not | mark |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 take | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 leave | aux |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | sun | part | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not take | can | sun | part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | can | sun | part | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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