The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 49

'Yes,' said the dying antelope, 'he will reward you, and lo! your reward shall be your own undoing!'

Who acts: Gopani, reward, your · What happens: say, die, reward, be · To what, where: dying antelope, you, own undoing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Gopani, reward, 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 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 antelope	det
7	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 antelope	amod
8	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reward	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 reward	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reward	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 reward	aux
13	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 reward	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 undoing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 undoing	cc
17	lo	lo	INTJ	_	25 undoing	discourse
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 lo	punct
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 reward	nmod:poss
20	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 undoing	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 undoing	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 undoing	cop
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 undoing	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 undoing	amod
25	undoing	undoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reward	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 reward	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 reward	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the dying antelope		tree rules
2	die	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	reward	future	Gopani		you	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is a	shall	your reward	your own undoing		tree rules
5	reward		your			nom reward «event 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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