The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 6

If, for the space of a year, you can bring them back to me each evening before the sun sets, I will make you payment that will satisfy your soul.'

Who acts: you, sun, I, payment · What happens: bring back, set, make, satisfy · To what, where: cows, me, payment, you, soul

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, sun, I, payment), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 bring	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 space	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 space	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 space	det
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 space	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 space	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 bring	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bring	aux
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bring	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 bring	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 bring	obl
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 evening	det
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obl:unmarked
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 sets	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sets	nsubj
22	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bring	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 make	obj
28	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 satisfy	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 satisfy	aux
31	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 payment	acl:relcl
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 soul	nmod:poss
33	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 satisfy	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring back a condition, not said to happen	can	you	cows = cow	me	evening	for the space of a year	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination
2	set	present	the sun					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	future	I	payment	you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary payment=Product
4	satisfy	future	payment	your soul				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer

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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