The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 20

I am going to give all sorts of little hops and skips, which will amuse the Princess Bella-Flor.

Who acts: I, sorts · What happens: go, give, amuse, sort · To what, where: sorts, Bella Flor, little hops

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 (I, sorts), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sorts	det
7	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hops	case
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hops	amod
10	hops	hop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sorts	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 skips	cc
12	skips	skip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hops	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 amuse	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 amuse	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 amuse	aux
16	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sorts	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Flor	det
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Flor	nsubj
19	Bella	Bella	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Flor	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Flor	punct
21	Flor	Flor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 amuse	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	all sorts of little hops and skips	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
3	amuse	future	all sorts of little hops and skips	the Bella Flor	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus flor=Experiencer
4	sort			little hops and skips	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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