The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 4
'You have treated me well,' he said, 'and meat shall never fail to your house.
Who acts: country, meat · What happens: treat, say, not fail · To what, where: You · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, meat), 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 | _ | 4 treated | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 treated | aux |
| 4 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 treated | obj |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 treated | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 treated | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 treated | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fail | cc |
| 14 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fail | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fail | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 fail | advmod |
| 17 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fail | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | present · perfect · passive | You | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | country | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not fail | shall | meat | to your house | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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