The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 8
'Ill will come of it if he listens to your offer.'
Who acts: Ill, sun, your · What happens: come, listen, offer
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 (Ill, sun, your), 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 | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | Ill | ill | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 listens | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 listens | nsubj |
| 9 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 offer | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 offer | nmod:poss |
| 12 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 listens | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | Ill | of space | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | listen a condition, not said to happen | present | sun | to your offer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to offer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | offer | your | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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