The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 4

My home is in the river, for my moustache is the grey fever-mist that hangs above the water, and with which I bind all those that come unto me so that they die.'

Who acts: home, moustache, grey fever mist, I, debou · What happens: be, hang, bind, come, die · To what, where: river, water, those

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 (home, moustache, grey fever mist, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 home	nmod:poss
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 river	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 river	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mist	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	16 mist	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 moustache	nmod:poss
10	moustache	moustache	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mist	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mist	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mist	det
13	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mist	amod
14	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mist	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fever	punct
16	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 river	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hangs	nsubj
18	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mist	acl:relcl
19	above	above	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hangs	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bind	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bind	cc
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 bind	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 bind	nsubj
27	bind	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 river	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 those	det:predet
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 bind	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 come	nsubj
31	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 those	acl:relcl
32	unto	unto	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 come	obl
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 die	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 die	nsubj
37	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 come	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 river	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 river	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	My home		the river and the grey fever mist		tree rules
2	is	present	my moustache			for the grey fever mist	tree rules
3	hang	present	the grey fever mist		the water		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above water=Location
4	bind	present	I	those		with the river and the grey fever mist	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent that=Patient with which=Co-Patient
5	come	present				unto me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	die	present	debou				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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