The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 113

'Now that we own such a splendid troop of oxen you had better hasten and get yourself a wife, lest some illness should overtake them.

Who acts: we, you, splendid troop, illness · What happens: own, have, hasten, get, overtake · To what, where: splendid troop, yourself, oxen

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, splendid troop, illness), 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 own	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 own	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 own	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 own	nsubj
5	own	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 troop	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 troop	det
8	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 troop	amod
9	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 own	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 oxen	case
11	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 troop	nmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 troop	acl:relcl
14	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 had	advmod
15	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 get	cc
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hasten	conj
18	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 get	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wife	det
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 overtake	punct
22	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	26 overtake	mark
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 illness	det
24	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 overtake	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 overtake	aux
26	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 get	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 overtake	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 own	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	own	present	we	such splendid troop of oxen	now		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot troop=Theme
2	have	past	you	such splendid troop of oxen not said here		well property	tree rules
3	hasten	infinitive	such splendid troop of oxen not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	get	infinitive	such splendid troop of oxen not said here	yourself			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary wife=Theme
5	overtake	should	some illness	oxen = ox			tree rules

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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