The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 13

'Let them wander where they will,' he said to his servant, 'and never seek to turn them from their way, for well they know the fields of good pasture.

Who acts: you, cows, man · What happens: let, wander, say, not seek, turn, know · To what, where: cows, servant, way, fields · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, cows, man), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 will	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 will	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wander	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 servant	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 servant	nmod:poss
14	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seek	cc
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 seek	advmod
19	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 turn	mark
21	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seek	xcomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 turn	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 well	case
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 know	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
30	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 turn	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fields	det
32	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 know	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 pasture	case
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pasture	amod
35	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fields	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	cows = cow			tree rules
2	wander	infinitive	cows = cow not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	man		man's servant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient
4	not seek	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
5	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	cows = cow		cows's way	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme from way=Trajectory
6	know	present	cows = cow	the fields of good pasture			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus

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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