The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 49

I only want you--between to-day and the next full moon--to gnaw through the bows and paddles of the wolf people, so that directly they use them they will break.

Who acts: I, people · What happens: want, gnaw, use, break · To what, where: you, bows, paddles

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, people), 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 want	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 want	advmod
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 want	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
6	between	between	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 to	punct
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 moon	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moon	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 moon	amod
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 moon	amod
14	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	conj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 gnaw	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 gnaw	mark
17	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 want	parataxis
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 bows	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bows	det
20	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gnaw	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 paddles	cc
22	paddles	paddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bows	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 people	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 people	det
25	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 people	compound
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 paddles	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 use	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 use	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	directly	directly	ADV	_	32 use	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 use	nsubj
32	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gnaw	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 use	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 break	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 break	aux
36	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 use	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	you		day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
2	gnaw	to-infinitive			the bows and paddles of the wolf people			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	present	people	paddles = paddle			directly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	break	future	people					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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