The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 82
'Oh, wise owl, I pray you to protect and guide me, for I have come in search of the Bird of Truth.
Who acts: I · What happens: pray, protect, guide, come, search · To what, where: wise owl, me, search, Bird
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 (I), 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 owl | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 owl | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 owl | amod |
| 5 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pray | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 owl | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | nsubj |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 protect | mark |
| 11 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pray | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 guide | cc |
| 13 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 protect | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 guide | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 guide | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 search | case |
| 21 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Bird | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bird | det |
| 24 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 search | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Truth | case |
| 26 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Bird | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | I | wise owl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | guide | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | I | search of the Bird of Truth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location | ||||
| 5 | search | the Bird of Truth | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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