The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 89
Surely some evil has befallen her, or she would have sent us a token to put our hearts at rest; and I have vowed to myself that my eyes shall not know sleep till, living or dead, I have found her.'
Who acts: sister, I, eyes · What happens: befall, send, put, vow, not know, live · To what, where: evil, token, us, hearts, rest, myself
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 (sister, I, eyes), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 befallen | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 evil | det |
| 3 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 befallen | aux |
| 5 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 befallen | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | aux |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 befallen | conj |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 token | det |
| 15 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 rest | case |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 vowed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 vowed | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 vowed | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 vowed | aux |
| 26 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 befallen | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 myself | case |
| 28 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 vowed | obl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 know | mark |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 know | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 know | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 know | advmod |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 vowed | advcl |
| 35 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 till | compound |
| 36 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 know | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 living | punct |
| 38 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 know | conj |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 dead | cc |
| 40 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 living | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 found | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 found | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 found | aux |
| 44 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 befallen | parataxis |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 found | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 befallen | punct |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 befallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | present · perfect · passive | some evil | surely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | would · perfect | sister | a token | us | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination token=Theme | |||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | sister not said here | our hearts | rest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heart=Theme at rest=Destination | |||
| 4 | vow | present · perfect | I | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not know | shall | my eyes | sleep till | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer till=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | live | gerund | my eyes not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | find | present · perfect | I | sister | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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