The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 8

She is a good creature, and always does what I tell her, so I will just lend her my cap, and if she puts it on, and flies into the world, she will bring back all we want.

Who acts: person, good creature, I, we · What happens: be, do, tell, lend, put on, fly · To what, where: good creature, person, cap, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (person, good creature, I, we), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 creature	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 creature	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 creature	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creature	amod
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 does	cc
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 does	advmod
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 creature	acl:relcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 tell	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 does	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lend	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 lend	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 lend	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 lend	aux
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 lend	advmod
19	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lend	iobj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cap	nmod:poss
22	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lend	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bring	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bring	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 puts	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 puts	nsubj
27	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 bring	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 puts	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	27 puts	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flies	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 flies	cc
32	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 puts	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flies	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 puts	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bring	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 bring	aux
39	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 creature	parataxis
40	back	back	ADV	_	39 bring	advmod
41	all	all	ADV	_	43 want	advmod
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 want	nsubj
43	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 bring	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 creature	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	person	a good creature			tree rules
2	do	present	a good creature not said here			always property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	I		person		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic
4	lend	future	I	my cap	person		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cap=Theme
5	put on a condition, not said to happen	present	person	cap			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
6	fly	present	person not said here			into the world result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into world=Result
7	bring back	future	person				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
8	want	present	we			all property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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