The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 92
Take, therefore, the sceptre from my hand, and my crown from my head, and rule my people better than I have done.'
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: take, rule, do, crown · To what, where: sceptre, hand, people, head
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, I, my), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sceptre | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sceptre | det |
| 6 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crown | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crown | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crown | nmod:poss |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crown | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rule | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rule | cc |
| 19 | rule | rule | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 people | nmod:poss |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rule | obj |
| 22 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 rule | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 done | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 done | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 better | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the sceptre | my hand | my crown from my head obl; therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from hand=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | rule | infinitive | you not said here | my people | well property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result | |||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | crown | my | my head | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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