The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 60
You have only to strike your forehead, and call out its name.'
Who acts: You, forehead · What happens: have, strike, call out, name · To what, where: forehead, name
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 (You, forehead), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 strike | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 strike | mark |
| 5 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | xcomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 7 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strike | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 call | cc |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 call | compound:prt |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | strike | to-infinitive | You not said here | your forehead | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | infinitive | forehead's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | name | forehead | nom name «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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