The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 114
'Well, I will give you your chance,' answered the ogress, with a hideous grin; 'we will see if you can slide down this mountain.
Who acts: I, we, you, your · What happens: give, answer, see, slide down, chance · To what, where: chance, you, ogress, mountain
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, you, your), 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 | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 chance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ogress | det |
| 14 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grin | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 grin | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 grin | det |
| 18 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grin | amod |
| 19 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | conj |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 slide | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 slide | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 slide | aux |
| 28 | slide | slide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 see | advcl |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 slide | compound:prt |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 mountain | det |
| 31 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 slide | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | your chance | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient chance=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the ogress | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ogress=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | see | future | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | slide down a condition, not said to happen | can | you | this mountain | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Agent | ||||
| 5 | chance | your | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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