The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 4
Still-- no doubt your father and mother will come themselves and bring the price?'
Who acts: doubt · What happens: come, bring · To what, where: father, price
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 (doubt), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 doubt | det |
| 4 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doubt | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mother | cc |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 father | conj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 come | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bring | cc |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 price | det |
| 15 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | no doubt | father | still | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | no doubt not said here | the price | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent price=Theme |
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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