The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 94
Here is a ring that will admit you into the presence of the queen, and will likewise allow you to address unharmed the Lion Fairy, though she is the most terrible creature that ever existed.'
Who acts: ring, Fairy, terrible creature · What happens: be, admit, allow, address, exist · To what, where: you, presence, unharmed Lion Fairy, terrible creature
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 (ring, Fairy, terrible creature), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 admit | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 admit | aux |
| 7 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ring | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 admit | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 presence | det |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admit | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 queen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 presence | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 allow | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 allow | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 allow | aux |
| 18 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 19 allow | advmod |
| 19 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 admit | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 allow | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 address | mark |
| 22 | address | address | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 allow | xcomp |
| 23 | unharmed | unharmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Fairy | amod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Fairy | det |
| 25 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Fairy | compound |
| 26 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 address | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 creature | punct |
| 28 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 creature | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 creature | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 creature | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 creature | det |
| 32 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 33 terrible | advmod |
| 33 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 creature | amod |
| 34 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admit | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 existed | nsubj |
| 36 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 37 existed | advmod |
| 37 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 creature | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a ring | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | future | a ring | you | the presence of the queen | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | allow | future | a ring not said here | you | likewise property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | address not said to happen | to-infinitive | a ring not said here | the unharmed Lion Fairy | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | Fairy | the terrible creature | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | exist | past | the terrible creature | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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