The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 76
For nine years I have resisted them; now I can do so no longer, and have made choice of the fair young maiden playing at ball yonder.'
Who acts: I · What happens: resist, do, make, play · To what, where: desires, choice, ball
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 resisted | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 resisted | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 resisted | aux |
| 6 | resisted | resist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 resisted | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 do | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 resisted | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 do | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 do | advcl |
| 20 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 maiden | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maiden | det |
| 23 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 maiden | amod |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 maiden | amod |
| 25 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 choice | acl |
| 26 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 maiden | csubj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 ball | case |
| 28 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 playing | obl |
| 29 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 26 playing | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 resisted | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 resisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resist | present · perfect | I | desires = desire | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | can | I | now | long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | make | present · perfect | I not said here | choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product | ||||
| 4 | play | gerund | ball | yonder property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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