The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 9
I would have presented my prayer in person, he added in his letter, 'but my great age and infirmities do not suffer me to travel; however my envoy has orders to agree to any arrangement that you may propose.'
Who acts: Desiree, great age, envoy, you, my · What happens: present, add, not suffer, travel, have, agree · To what, where: I, letter, me, orders
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 (Desiree, great age, envoy, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 presented | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 presented | aux |
| 4 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 added | nsubj |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 presented | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 letter | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 letter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 suffer | cc |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 age | nmod:poss |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 age | amod |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 suffer | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 infirmities | cc |
| 22 | infirmities | infirmity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 age | conj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 suffer | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 suffer | advmod |
| 25 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 added | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 suffer | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 travel | mark |
| 28 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 suffer | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 has | punct |
| 30 | however | however | ADV | _ | 33 has | advmod |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 envoy | nmod:poss |
| 32 | envoy | envoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 has | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 presented | conj |
| 34 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 has | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 agree | mark |
| 36 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 orders | acl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 arrangement | case |
| 38 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 arrangement | det |
| 39 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 agree | obl |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 propose | mark |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 propose | nsubj |
| 42 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 propose | aux |
| 43 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 agree | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presented | punct |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | would · perfect · passive | I | in person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | Desiree | Desiree's letter | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not suffer | present · do-support | my great age and infirmities | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | travel | to-infinitive | my great age and infirmities not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | present | my envoy | orders | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient | |||
| 6 | agree speech: agree | to-infinitive | my envoy not said here | orders not said here | to any arrangement | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | propose | may | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | pray | my | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | letter | Desiree | nom letter «communication 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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