The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 77
'They will make capital wives if they will only stay with us,' said they.
Who acts: Owl · What happens: make, stay, say · To what, where: capital wives · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Owl), 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wives | compound |
| 6 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 stay | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stay | aux |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 stay | advmod |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | Owl | capital wives | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wife=Product | ||||
| 2 | stay a condition, not said to happen | future | Owl | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Owl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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