The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 85
What wicked fairy can have treated me so; and shall I never, never take my own shape again?
Who acts: I · What happens: treat, not take · To what, where: me, own shape
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), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fairy | amod |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 treated | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 treated | aux |
| 6 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 treated | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 treated | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 never | punct |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 treated | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shape | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shape | amod |
| 19 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | can · perfect · passive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not take | shall | I | my own shape | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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