The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 67
If you like, I will ask those people who are digging there!'
Who acts: you, I, people · What happens: like, ask, dig · To what, where: people
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, I, people), 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 like | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 digging | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 digging | aux |
| 12 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 digging | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | future | I | that people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | dig | present · progressive | that people | there | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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