The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 24
You must give me our buffalo, the Rover of the Plain; he alone shall serve me.'
Who acts: You, presence · What happens: give, serve · To what, where: buffalo, me
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, presence), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 buffalo | nmod:poss |
| 6 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rover | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rover | det |
| 9 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 buffalo | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Plain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Plain | det |
| 12 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rover | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 serve | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 serve | nsubj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 serve | advmod |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 serve | aux |
| 17 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 serve | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | must | You | our buffalo | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient buffalo=Theme | |||
| 2 | serve | shall | presence | me | alone property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute |
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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