The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 11
Therefore, good father, I will take service with you at daybreak, and ask no payment till the new year dawns.'
Who acts: I · What happens: take, ask · To what, where: good father, daybreak, payment
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 father | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 father | amod |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 daybreak | case |
| 13 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ask | cc |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 payment | det |
| 18 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ask | obj |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 23 dawns | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 year | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 year | amod |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dawns | compound |
| 23 | dawns | dawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 payment | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | good father | daybreak | with you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent service=Theme at daybreak=Asset | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | I not said here | no payment | till year dawns | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent payment=Recipient |
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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