The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 50
And fished we must remain till someone brings me back my crown again!'
Who acts: we, someone, my · What happens: fish, remain back, bring, crown · To what, where: crown, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, someone, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 fished | cc |
| 2 | fished | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remain | aux |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fished | ccomp |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 brings | mark |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 brings | nsubj |
| 8 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remain | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 brings | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADP | _ | 5 remain | compound:prt |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 crown | nmod:poss |
| 12 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remain | xcomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 remain | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 fished | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 fished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | remain back | must | we | my crown | again | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring | present | someone | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 4 | crown | my | nom crown «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/25/50/