The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 55
And now, as to your reward, you shall in truth take your sister home with you, and your brothers I will restore to life; but idle and unfaithful as they are their lot is to wander for ever.
Who acts: brothers, your · What happens: take, restore, be, reward · To what, where: sister, truth, life
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 (brothers, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 shall | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 reward | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 reward | nmod:poss |
| 7 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shall | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reward | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 shall | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 truth | case |
| 12 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 take | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 restore | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 restore | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 restore | nsubj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 restore | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 restore | aux |
| 25 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 take | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 restore | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 idle | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 idle | cc |
| 30 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 take | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 unfaithful | cc |
| 32 | unfaithful | unfaithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 idle | conj |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 wander | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 wander | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 wander | cop |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 lot | nmod:poss |
| 37 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wander | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 wander | cop |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 wander | mark |
| 40 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 idle | advcl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 ever | case |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 wander | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | shall | your sister | truth | with you; home property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sister=Value in truth=Location | |||
| 2 | restore | future | your brothers | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | brothers = brother | wander property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reward | your | nom reward «event 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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