The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 26

'It will not be so easy as you think,' answered the city swallow, shaking her head; 'for they will have to prove that they are the king's children, and also that their mother never went mad at all.

Who acts: It, you, children, mother · What happens: not be, think, answer, shake, have, prove · To what, where: city swallow, head, children

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, you, children, mother), 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	_	7 easy	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 easy	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 easy	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 easy	advmod
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 think	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 swallow	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swallow	compound
16	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shaking	punct
18	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 answered	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shaking	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easy	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 prove	mark
28	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 have	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 children	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 children	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 children	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 children	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 king	case
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 prove	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 went	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 went	cc
38	also	also	ADV	_	43 went	advmod
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 went	mark
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mother	nmod:poss
41	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 went	nsubj
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 went	advmod
43	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	conj
44	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 went	xcomp
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 all	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 mad	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	future	It		easy property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past		the city swallow		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent swallow=Eventuality
4	shake	gerund		swallow's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	have	future	children = child			tree rules
6	prove	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	children = child	the king's children		tree rules
8	not go	past	children's mother		mad property	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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