The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 115
If you can reach the bottom of the cavern, you shall have your husbands back again.'
Who acts: you · What happens: reach, have · To what, where: bottom, husbands
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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 reach | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 reach | aux |
| 4 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottom | det |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reach | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cavern | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cavern | det |
| 9 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottom | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reach | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 again | advmod |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach a condition, not said to happen | can | you | the bottom of the cavern | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | you | your husbands | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
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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