The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 100
'I cannot take away the spell altogether,' she said, 'for the Fairy of the Fountain is stronger than I; but I can shorten the time of your punishment, and am able to make it less hard, for as soon as darkness fall you shall resume your own shape.'
Who acts: I, doe, Fountain, you, your · What happens: not take away, say, be, shorten, make, fall · To what, where: spell, Fountain, own shape · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, doe, Fountain, 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spell | det |
| 8 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Fairy | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fairy | det |
| 18 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 stronger | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fountain | det |
| 21 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stronger | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stronger | cop |
| 23 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 Fairy | amod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 I | case |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 stronger | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 shorten | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 shorten | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 shorten | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 shorten | aux |
| 30 | shorten | shorten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shorten | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 punishment | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 35 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 time | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 able | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 able | cc |
| 38 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 able | cop |
| 39 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 shorten | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 make | mark |
| 41 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 able | xcomp |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 make | obj |
| 43 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 hard | advmod |
| 44 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 make | xcomp |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 fall | punct |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 darkness | case |
| 47 | as | as | ADV | _ | 48 soon | advmod |
| 48 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 50 darkness | advmod |
| 49 | as | as | ADP | _ | 50 darkness | case |
| 50 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 fall | obl |
| 51 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 shorten | advcl |
| 52 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 54 resume | nsubj |
| 53 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 resume | aux |
| 54 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 fall | ccomp |
| 55 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 shape | nmod:poss |
| 56 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 shape | amod |
| 57 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 resume | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 59 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take away | can | I | the spell | altogether property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | doe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the Fountain | than I; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shorten | can | I | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | Fountain | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 7 | fall | present | I not said here | for darkness | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | resume | shall | you | your own shape | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | punish | your | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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