The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 44
'I am beaten at last, unless the Doran-donn can deliver me,' he cried.
Who acts: Doran donn, donn · What happens: beat, deliver, cry · To what, where: I, last, me
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 (Doran donn, donn), 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 beaten | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beaten | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beaten | aux:pass |
| 4 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 last | case |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beaten | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deliver | punct |
| 8 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 14 deliver | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 donn | det |
| 10 | Doran | Doran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 donn | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Doran | punct |
| 12 | donn | donn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deliver | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 deliver | aux |
| 14 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beaten | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 deliver | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deliver | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present · passive | I | last | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deliver a condition, not said to happen | can | the Doran donn | me | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | donn | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/31/44/