The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 108
I will use it as a table to put my food upon.'
Who acts: I · What happens: use, put upon · To what, where: wood, food
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 use | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | aux |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 use | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 use | advcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 food | nmod:poss |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | future | I | wood | as a table | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as table=Attribute | |||
| 2 | put upon | to-infinitive | I not said here | my food | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal |
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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