The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 60
Ah, how fortunate that the broken chariot should be lying in the wood, for then you may grieve for me as one devoured by wild beasts.
Who acts: broken chariot, you · What happens: break, lie, grieve, devour · To what, where: wood
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 (broken chariot, you), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 fortunate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fortunate | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 fortunate | advmod |
| 4 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 lying | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chariot | det |
| 7 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 chariot | amod |
| 8 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lying | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lying | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lying | aux |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fortunate | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lying | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grieve | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 grieve | mark |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 grieve | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 grieve | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 grieve | aux |
| 20 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fortunate | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 grieve | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 grieve | obl |
| 25 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 one | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 beasts | case |
| 27 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beasts | amod |
| 28 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 devoured | obl:agent |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | lie | should · progressive | the broken chariot | the wood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | ||||
| 3 | grieve | may | you | then | for me; as one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | devour | participle | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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