The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 25
For who will give you back your money if they are all dead?'
Who acts: words · What happens: give back, be · To what, where: money, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | back | back | ADP | _ | 4 give | compound:prt |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 money | nmod:poss |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 dead | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dead | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dead | cop |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 dead | advmod |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 give | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | future | your money | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | words = word | all, dead property | tree rules |
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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