The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 11
'Give me back the wife and the child you have stolen from me,' he said, 'or you shall not live another second!'
Who acts: child, you · What happens: give back, steal, say, not live · To what, where: wife, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | back | back | ADP | _ | 2 Give | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | iobj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stolen | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stolen | aux |
| 12 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Give | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 stolen | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 live | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 live | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 live | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 live | advmod |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | conj |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 second | det |
| 27 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 live | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | infinitive | the wife | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wife=Theme | |||||
| 2 | steal | present · perfect · passive | the child | from me | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from i=Source | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not live | shall | you | second | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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