The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 130

Make my hair grow as thick and as black as yours, or else your husbands shall never see daylight again.'

Who acts: you, hair, husbands · What happens: make, grow, not see · To what, where: daylight

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, hair, husbands), 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	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	xcomp
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 thick	case
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 black	cc
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 black	advmod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thick	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 yours	case
11	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 black	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
14	else	else	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husbands	nmod:poss
16	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 see	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	conj
20	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	grow	present	my hair			as thick	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not see	shall	your husbands	daylight	again	else property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus

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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