The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 18
'To please my friend I will spare your life on condition that, for the future, you shall guard our treasures.
Who acts: I, you, our · What happens: please, spare, guard, treasure · To what, where: friend, life, condition, treasures
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 (I, you, our), 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 | _ | 3 please | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 please | mark |
| 3 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 please | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 spare | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 spare | aux |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 please | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spare | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 condition | case |
| 12 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spare | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 condition | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 future | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 future | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 future | det |
| 17 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 condition | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 guard | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 guard | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 guard | aux |
| 21 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 please | conj |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 23 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 guard | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | to-infinitive | my friend | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | spare | future | I | your life | condition and the future | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | |||
| 3 | guard | shall | you | our treasures | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | treasure | our | nom treasure «possession 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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