The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 88
Here is your table, which I own with shame that I tried to steal, and you shall have besides, my daughter as your wife!'
Who acts: table, I, you · What happens: be, own, try, steal, have · To what, where: shame, besides
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 (table, I, 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 | 8 own | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 table | nmod:poss |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 own | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 own | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 own | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 own | nsubj |
| 8 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 shame | case |
| 10 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 own | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 tried | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shame | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 steal | mark |
| 15 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 own | conj |
| 21 | besides | beside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 daughter | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 besides | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 own | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 own | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | own | present | your table | with shame | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | past | I | shame | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | steal not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | shall | you | besides and my daughter | as your wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beside=Patient |
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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