The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 77

'We can never jump those wide spaces if we are burdened with food,' said Gudu, 'we must throw it into the river, unless we wish to fall in ourselves.'

Who acts: We, Gudu · What happens: not jump, burden, say, throw, wish, fall · To what, where: wide spaces, we, food, river · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, Gudu), 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	_	5 jump	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 jump	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 jump	advmod
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 spaces	det
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spaces	amod
8	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jump	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 burdened	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 burdened	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 burdened	aux:pass
12	burdened	burden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 jump	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 food	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burdened	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 jump	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 jump	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 throw	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 throw	punct
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 throw	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 throw	aux
23	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 throw	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 river	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wish	punct
29	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	31 wish	mark
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 wish	nsubj
31	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 throw	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 fall	mark
33	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 wish	xcomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 ourselves	case
35	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 fall	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 throw	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not jump	can	We	that wide spaces		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme space=Trajectory
2	burden a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		we	with food	vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with food=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Gudu			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	throw	must	we	food	into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result
5	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	we			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	fall not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here		in ourselves	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ourselves=Location

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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