The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 62
'Good deeds bear fruit sooner or later,' observed the horse; 'but mount again, as we have far to go.'
Who acts: Good deeds, we · What happens: bear, observe, mount, have, go · To what, where: fruit, horse
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 (Good deeds, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deeds | amod |
| 3 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | obj |
| 6 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 bear | advmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 later | cc |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 sooner | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 observed | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 observed | punct |
| 11 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 observed | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 mount | cc |
| 17 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bear | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 mount | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | conj |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 have | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 far | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present | Good deeds | fruit | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | |||
| 2 | observe | past | the horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mount | infinitive | Good deeds not said here | again | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | we | far property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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