The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 74
So put some food in a bag, and sling it round your neck, for we may not be able to find anything to eat for a long while.'
Who acts: you, we · What happens: put, sling, not be, find, eat · To what, where: food, bag, anything
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 (you, we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 put | advmod |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 food | det |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bag | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sling | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sling | cc |
| 10 | sling | sling | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sling | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 neck | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 neck | nmod:poss |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sling | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 able | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 able | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 able | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 able | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sling | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 find | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 eat | mark |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 anything | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 while | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 while | det |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 while | amod |
| 30 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eat | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | some food | a bag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme in bag=Destination | |||
| 2 | sling | infinitive | you not said here | food | round your neck | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | not is | may | we | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | we not said here | anything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | we not said here | anything not said here | while | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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