The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 57
Here is my bag; it will give you as many castles as you can possibly want.'
Who acts: bag, you · What happens: be, give, want · To what, where: bag, many castles, you
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 (bag, 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bag | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bag | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bag | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bag | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castles | amod |
| 12 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 want | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 want | aux |
| 16 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 17 want | advmod |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 give | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bag | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bag | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | my bag | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | future | bag | many castles | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient castle=Theme | |||
| 3 | want | can | you | possibly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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