The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 23
Once on my back we will go like the wind to the king's palace.'
Who acts: we · What happens: go · To what, where: back
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 (we), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 go | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 back | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 back | nmod:poss |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | we | my back | like the wind; to the king's palace; once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_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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