The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 14
'Be good to your husband's parents,' added he, 'and always do the will of your husband.'
Who acts: you · What happens: be, add, do · To what, where: husband
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 good | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 parents | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 husband | case |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 good | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 added | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 added | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 husband | det |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 husband | aux |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | to your husband's parents; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | you not said here | husband | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you not said here | your husband | always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality |
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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