The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 47
'There is no remedy that I can see,' said his majesty, 'but that you, who know where they are, should go and bring them back.
Who acts: remedy, I, you · What happens: be, see, say, know, go, bring back · To what, where: remedy, majesty, things · 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 (remedy, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 remedy | det |
| 5 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 see | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remedy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 know | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | advcl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 know | ccomp |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 are | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 where | cop |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bring | cc |
| 30 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bring | obj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 bring | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no remedy | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | can | I | no remedy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | remedy's majesty | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go | should | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | bring back | infinitive | things = thing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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