The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 66
'Do not be frightened; call to the eagle you set free from the net, he will bring it to you.'
Who acts: you, eagle · What happens: not frighten, call, set, bring · To what, where: net, you · 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 (you, eagle), 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 | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 eagle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 call | advcl |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 set | xcomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 net | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 net | det |
| 16 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 free | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bring | aux |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not frighten | infinitive · passive · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 2 | call | infinitive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | set | present | you | to the eagle; free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring | future | eagle | net | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Destination |
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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