The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 13

'Look through the window at that lake and see if it is in my power to give them to you.'

Who acts: you, lake · What happens: look, see, be, give · To what, where: power, walls · 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 (you, lake), 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 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Look	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Look	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 power	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 power	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 power	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 power	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 power	nmod:poss
16	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			at that lake; through the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	lake		my power		tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive		walls = wall		to you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to you=Recipient

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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