The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 88
If the king hesitates, go to him the next day, and the day after, and in the end he will bestow the Mirror upon you, for you saved his life.'
Who acts: king, you · What happens: hesitate, go, bestow, save · To what, where: King, Mirror, end, life
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 (king, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 hesitates | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hesitates | nsubj |
| 4 | hesitates | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hesitates | punct |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 after | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 after | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 after | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | after | after | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bestow | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bestow | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bestow | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bestow | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 bestow | aux |
| 24 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Mirror | det |
| 26 | Mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bestow | obj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 bestow | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 saved | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 saved | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 saved | nsubj |
| 32 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bestow | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 life | nmod:poss |
| 34 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 saved | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate a condition, not said to happen | present | the king | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | imperative | you not said here | King | day | after property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | bestow | future | King | the Mirror | in the end | upon you | tree rules | ||
| 4 | save | past | you | King's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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