The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 101
Give me the arrows, I will finish making them, and you can go to the river and bring home the pack!'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, finish, make, go, bring · To what, where: arrows, me, river, pack
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arrows | det |
| 4 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 finish | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 finish | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 finish | aux |
| 8 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | advcl |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 finish | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 making | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 river | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bring | cc |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 bring | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pack | det |
| 23 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | the arrows | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient arrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | finish | future | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | I not said here | arrows = arrow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | ||||
| 4 | go | can | you | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | the pack | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pack=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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