The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 92
So, when danger is your companion, wish for me, and I will not fail you.'
Who acts: danger, companion, I · What happens: be, wish, not fail · To what, where: companion, you
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 (danger, companion, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 wish | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 companion | advmod |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 companion | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 companion | cop |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 companion | punct |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fail | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fail | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fail | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fail | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 fail | advmod |
| 17 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 fail | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | danger | your companion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | infinitive | your companion | for me | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not fail | future | I | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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