The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 4
'Never mind that; give them to the ants all the same.
Who acts: you · What happens: not mind, give · To what, where: that, same, ants
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), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mind | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ants | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ants | det |
| 10 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 same | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 same | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 give | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | that | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | all same | ants = ant | to the ants | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient same=Theme |
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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