The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 114
'Bring me the Princess Bella-Flor this moment,' stammered he, 'for if you return without her I will have you drowned!'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring, stammer, return, have, drown · To what, where: Bella Flor, me, Flor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stammered | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Flor | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Flor | nsubj |
| 6 | Bella | Bella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Flor | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Flor | punct |
| 8 | Flor | Flor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 13 | stammered | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stammered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stammered | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 stammered | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 return | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 return | nsubj |
| 20 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | advcl |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 return | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stammered | advcl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 drowned | nsubj |
| 27 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 have | xcomp |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 drowned | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | infinitive | the Bella Flor | me | moment | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination flor=Theme | |||
| 2 | stammer speech: other | past | Flor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return a condition, not said to happen | present | you | without Princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | drown | participle | you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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