The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 93
Therefore lose no time in setting in order the affairs of your kingdom and go in search of your wife.
Who acts: you · What happens: lose, go, search · To what, where: affairs, setting, search, wife
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), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 lose | advmod |
| 2 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lose | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 setting | case |
| 6 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lose | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lose | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 affairs | det |
| 10 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lose | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kingdom | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 affairs | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 lose | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 search | case |
| 17 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 search | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | imperative | you not said here | the affairs of your kingdom | setting | time | in order; therefore property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Eventuality | |
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | search of your wife | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 3 | search | your wife | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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