The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 5

'I want nothing for myself,' answered Covan the Brown-haired; 'but I ask you to give me back my brothers and my sister who have been lost to us for three years past.

Who acts: I · What happens: want, answer, ask, give back, lose · To what, where: nothing, Covan, you, sister, brothers, us

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 (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	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	advcl
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 want	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 myself	case
6	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 nothing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 haired	det
12	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 haired	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Brown	punct
14	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Covan	appos
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 ask	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 ask	nsubj
19	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 ask	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ask	xcomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	back	back	ADP	_	22 give	compound:prt
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brothers	nmod:poss
26	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 give	iobj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sister	cc
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sister	nmod:poss
29	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 lost	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 lost	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 lost	aux:pass
33	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 sister	acl:relcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 us	case
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 lost	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 years	case
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 years	nummod
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lost	obl
39	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 years	amod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	nothing			for myself	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			Covan			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent covan=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	present	I		you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give back not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my sister	my brothers			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient brother=Theme
5	lose	present · perfect · passive		my sister	us	year		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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