The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 96
Will you have the little cake with your mother's blessing, or the big one without it, in that you have set aside your father and taken on yourself to make a vow?'
Who acts: you, mother · What happens: have, set, take, make, bless · To what, where: little cake, you, vow
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, mother), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cake | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cake | amod |
| 6 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 blessing | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 11 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 one | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blessing | appos |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 24 set | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 in | fixed |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 set | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | parataxis |
| 25 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 27 father | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 taken | cc |
| 29 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 set | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 yourself | case |
| 31 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 taken | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 make | mark |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 taken | advcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 vow | det |
| 35 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 make | obj |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | you | the little cake | with your mother's blessing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | |||
| 2 | set | present · perfect · passive | you | aside your father | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | take | participle | on yourself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on yourself=Destination | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | a vow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vow=Product | |||||
| 5 | bless | your mother | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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