The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 39
I have lost my favourite ring; DO stop for a moment and look if you can see it.'
Who acts: I, you · What happens: lose, stop, look, see · To what, where: favourite ring, ring
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, you), 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 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ring | nmod:poss |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ring | amod |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 8 | DO | do | PART | _ | 9 stop | mark |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 look | cc |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stop | conj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 look | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | I | my favourite ring | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | can | you | ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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