The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 95
You, as the eldest, will inherit this hut; but, if you value my blessing, be good to your mother and brothers.'
Who acts: You, my · What happens: inherit, value, be, bless · To what, where: hut, blessing
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, my), 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 | 8 inherit | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eldest | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 eldest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eldest | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 You | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 You | punct |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 inherit | aux |
| 8 | inherit | inherit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 hut | det |
| 10 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inherit | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 good | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 but | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 value | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 value | nsubj |
| 16 | value | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 good | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 18 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 value | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 value | punct |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 good | cop |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 inherit | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 mother | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 good | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 brothers | cc |
| 26 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mother | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 inherit | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 inherit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inherit | future | You | this hut | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | value a condition, not said to happen | present | you | my blessing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blessing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | to your mother and brothers; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bless | my | nom blessing «act 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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