The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 12
'I will obey you in everything, dear brothers,' answered Lyman; and so she did.
Who acts: I, Lyman · What happens: obey, answer, do · To what, where: you, everything, Lyman
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Lyman), 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 obey | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 obey | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 obey | aux |
| 4 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 obey | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 everything | case |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 obey | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brothers | punct |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brothers | amod |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 everything | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obey | parataxis |
| 14 | Lyman | Lyman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 obey | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 did | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 did | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obey | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | future | I | you | everything | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Lyman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lyman=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Lyman | vn act-114-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/12/