The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 40
'Oh, Madam Lion, take me back, I pray you, to my castle; and fix what ransom you like, for my husband will pay it, whatever it is.
Who acts: Madam, I, husband, castle · What happens: take back, pray, fix, ransom, pay, be · To what, where: me, you, castle
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 (Madam, I, husband, castle), 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 | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 take | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Madam | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Madam | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pray | nsubj |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 pray | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 castle | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 castle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pray | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fix | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fix | cc |
| 20 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 ransom | obj |
| 22 | ransom | ransom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fix | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 fix | obj |
| 24 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 20 fix | discourse |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pay | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 pay | mark |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pay | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 pay | aux |
| 30 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fix | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 pay | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 whatever | punct |
| 33 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 pay | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 is | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | infinitive | Madam | me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | you | to my castle | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fix | infinitive | Madam not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ransom | present | Madam not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pay | future | my husband | castle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | ||||
| 6 | be | present | castle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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