The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 74
For our dogs are chasing your cows, and you must drive them off!'
Who acts: dogs, you · What happens: chase, drive off · To what, where: cows
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 (dogs, you), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 chasing | mark |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chasing | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chasing | aux |
| 5 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cows | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chasing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drive | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drive | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 drive | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 drive | aux |
| 12 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chasing | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drive | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 drive | compound:prt |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 drive | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present · progressive | our dogs | your cows | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive off | must | you | cows = cow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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