The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 87
'Now you can take your share and go,' said the sheep.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: take, go, say, share · To what, where: share, sheep · Speech: someone speaks here
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, your), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 take | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 share | nmod:poss |
| 7 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | you | your share | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the sheep | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | share | your | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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