The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 121
Only think of your having returned to your long-forgotten country friends, after you have lived for years in a palace!'
Who acts: you, your · What happens: think, have, return, forget, live · To what, where: palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 think | advmod |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 having | nsubj |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 think | ccomp |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forgotten | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 11 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 friends | amod |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 friends | compound |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 returned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 lived | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lived | aux |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 think | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lived | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | your | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return | participle | your not said here | to your forgotten country friends result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to friend=Result | ||||
| 4 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | live | present · perfect | you | a palace | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
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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