The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 39
Be comforted; if he IS dead, we will avenge him.'
Who acts: Wolf, we · What happens: comfort, be, avenge · To what, where: Wolf
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 (Wolf, we), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 comforted | aux:pass |
| 2 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 avenge | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 dead | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | IS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 avenge | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 avenge | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 avenge | aux |
| 11 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 comforted | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 avenge | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 avenge | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 avenge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | infinitive · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | Wolf | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | avenge | future | we | Wolf | tree rules |
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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