The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 109
However, as you can get flowers for yourself, of course you can get them for me, and in an hour's time I must have in my room a nosegay of the rarest flowers.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: get, have · To what, where: flowers, nosegay, room
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 yourself | case |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 15 get | advmod |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 of | fixed |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 get | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hour | det |
| 23 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 time | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 hour | case |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obl |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 room | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 room | nmod:poss |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 nosegay | det |
| 33 | nosegay | nosegay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 flowers | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 flowers | det |
| 36 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 flowers | amod |
| 37 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 nosegay | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | you | flowers | for yourself; however property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for yourself=Source | |||
| 2 | get | can | you | flowers = flower | for me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | have | must | I | a nosegay of the rarest flowers | my room | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosegay=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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