The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 131
'That is quite simple,' replied the elder sister; 'only you must do as we did--and perhaps you won't like the treatment.'
Who acts: That, you, we · What happens: be, reply, do, not like · To what, where: elder sister, treatment
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 (That, you, we), 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 | _ | 5 simple | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 simple | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 simple | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 simple | advmod |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 simple | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 10 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sister | amod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | iobj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 simple | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 did | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 like | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 like | cc |
| 23 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 27 like | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 like | nsubj |
| 25 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 like | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 like | advmod |
| 27 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 do | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 treatment | det |
| 29 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 like | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 simple | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 simple | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the elder sister | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sister=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | must | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | past | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not like | future | you | the treatment | perhaps property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treatment=Theme |
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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