The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 4
This time I have to bring her in an hour a posy of the rarest flowers, and where am I to find them?
Who acts: I · What happens: have, bring, find · To what, where: posy, queen, flowers
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 (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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hour | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hour | det |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 posy | det |
| 12 | posy | posy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flowers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flowers | det |
| 15 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 flowers | amod |
| 16 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 posy | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 find | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 find | cc |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 find | advmod |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | aux |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 find | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | I not said here | a posy of the rarest flowers | queen | hour | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination posy=Theme | ||
| 3 | find | present | I | flowers = flower | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/28/4/