The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 73
The sentence I pass upon her is, that if she is allowed to see one ray of daylight before her fifteenth birthday she will rue it bitterly, and it may perhaps cost her her life.'
Who acts: I, queen, fifteenth birthday, birthday · What happens: pass, be, allow, see, rue, cost · To what, where: sentence, queen, one ray, ray, life, daylight
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 (I, queen, fifteenth birthday, birthday), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sentence | det |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pass | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 is | nmod:poss |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pass | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 allowed | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 allowed | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 allowed | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 allowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pass | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 allowed | xcomp |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 ray | nummod |
| 17 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 daylight | case |
| 19 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ray | nmod |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 rue | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fifteenth | fifteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 birthday | amod |
| 23 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rue | nsubj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rue | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 rue | aux |
| 26 | rue | rue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rue | obj |
| 28 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 26 rue | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cost | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 cost | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 cost | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 cost | aux |
| 33 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 34 cost | advmod |
| 34 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pass | conj |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 life | nmod:poss |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 life | nmod:poss |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cost | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | I | the sentence | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sentence=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | be | present | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | allow a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | queen | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | queen not said here | one ray of daylight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ray=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | rue | future | queen's fifteenth birthday | ray | bitterly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | cost | may | birthday | queen's life | perhaps property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme life=Value | |||
| 7 | ray | daylight | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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