The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 106

'It will be safer with you, my daughter, for you dwell apart; whereas men come to consult me on affairs of state, and the Mirror might be stolen.'

Who acts: secret, you, men · What happens: be, dwell, come, consult, steal · To what, where: me, affairs, Mirror

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secret, you, men), 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 safer	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 safer	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 safer	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 safer	cop
5	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 safer	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daughter	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 you	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dwell	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 dwell	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 dwell	nsubj
14	dwell	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safer	conj
15	apart	apart	ADV	_	14 dwell	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	18 men	case
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safer	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 consult	mark
21	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	xcomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 consult	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 affairs	case
24	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 consult	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 state	case
26	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 affairs	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stolen	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stolen	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Mirror	det
30	Mirror	Mirror	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 stolen	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 stolen	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 stolen	aux:pass
33	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 come	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 safer	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 safer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	future	secret			with you; safe property	tree rules
2	dwell	present	you			apart property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	present	men				tree rules
4	consult	to-infinitive	men not said here	me	affairs of state		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	steal	might · passive		the Mirror			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: 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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