The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 16
But, instead, a gift shall be given you, which will comfort you in all your troubles.'
Who acts: your · What happens: give, comfort, trouble · To what, where: gift, you, troubles
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 comfort | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 3 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 9 given | mark |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 instead | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gift | det |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 comfort | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 given | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comfort | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 comfort | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 comfort | aux |
| 14 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 comfort | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 troubles | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 troubles | det:predet |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 19 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 comfort | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 comfort | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 comfort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | shall · passive | a gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | comfort | future | you | your troubles | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | trouble | your | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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