The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 107
'The custom of the village forbids you to eat till I have finished.'
Who acts: custom, I · What happens: forbid, eat, finish · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (custom, I), 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 | _ | 7 forbids | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 custom | det |
| 3 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forbids | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 custom | nmod |
| 7 | forbids | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 forbids | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forbids | xcomp |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 finished | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 finished | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 finished | aux |
| 14 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 eat | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbids | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 forbids | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | present | the custom of the village | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | the custom of the village not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | finish | present · perfect | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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