The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 51
You set store by your mother's blessing, therefore you have been blest.
Who acts: You, mother · What happens: set, be, bless · To what, where: store
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, mother), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 blessing | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 8 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blest | punct |
| 10 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 blest | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 blest | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 blest | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 blest | cop |
| 14 | blest | blest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 set | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | You | store | by your mother's blessing | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme by blessing=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | you | blest, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bless | your mother | nom blessing «act 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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