The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 79
But as I bear no malice, go and eat some of the dates that I have brought in that sack.'
Who acts: I, you · What happens: bear, go, eat, bring · To what, where: malice, some, dates, sack
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 (I, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 bear | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | advcl |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 malice | det |
| 6 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eat | cc |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dates | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dates | det |
| 14 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 dates | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sack | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 sack | det |
| 21 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present | I | no malice | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat | infinitive | you not said here | some | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring | present · perfect · passive | the dates | that sack | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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