The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 46
Ponder the matter carefully; it is for you to decide.'
Who acts: you, matter · What happens: ponder, be · To what, where: matter
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 (you, matter), 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 | Ponder | ponder | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ponder | obj |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 1 Ponder | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 decide | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 decide | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 decide | cop |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 decide | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 decide | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 decide | mark |
| 11 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ponder | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ponder | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ponder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ponder | imperative | you not said here | the matter | carefully property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | matter | decide property | tree rules |
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/pg3027/28/46/