The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 52
'Well, if you really wish to please me you will make me a pasty out of the stings of bees, and be sure it is good.'
Who acts: you, pasty · What happens: wish, please, make, be, sting · To what, where: me, pasty, bees
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, pasty), 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 | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 make | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 wish | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 wish | advmod |
| 7 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 please | mark |
| 9 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wish | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 please | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pasty | det |
| 16 | pasty | pasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 stings | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stings | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stings | det |
| 20 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pasty | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bees | case |
| 22 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stings | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sure | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sure | cc |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sure | cop |
| 26 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 good | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 good | cop |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sure | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | please not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | future | you | a pasty | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary pasty=Product | |||
| 4 | is | infinitive | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | pasty | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sting | bees | nom sting «state transitive»: of=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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