The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 73
But tell his majesty that if he does not return it at the end of the three days I will make war upon him.'
Who acts: you, Jack, I · What happens: tell, not return, make · To what, where: majesty, end, war · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Jack, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 tell | cc |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 return | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 return | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 return | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 return | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 return | advmod |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 return | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 days | det |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 days | nummod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 end | nmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | Jack's majesty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not return a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | Jack | majesty | at the end of the three days | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | future | I | war | upon Jack | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Product |
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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