The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 4
The Stalo will soon notice this, and will call you to give all the food to the dogs; but, instead, you must bring it straight to us, as it is three days since we have eaten or drunk.
Who acts: Stalo, you, food, we · What happens: notice, call, give, bring, be, eat · To what, where: this, you, food, dogs, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Stalo, you, food, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Stalo | det |
| 2 | Stalo | Stalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 notice | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 notice | advmod |
| 5 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 notice | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 call | cc |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 call | aux |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 notice | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 call | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 food | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 food | det |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 dogs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dogs | det |
| 19 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 bring | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 bring | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 but | punct |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 27 bring | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 instead | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 bring | aux |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 notice | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | obj |
| 29 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 31 us | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 us | case |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 days | punct |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 days | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 days | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 days | cop |
| 36 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 days | nummod |
| 37 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bring | obl |
| 38 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 41 eaten | mark |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 eaten | nsubj |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 eaten | aux |
| 41 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 bring | advcl |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 drunk | cc |
| 43 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 eaten | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 notice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | future | the Stalo | this | soon property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | call | future | the Stalo not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | the Stalo not said here | all food | the dogs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to dog=Recipient | |||
| 4 | bring | must | you | food | us | instead property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to we=Destination | ||
| 5 | is | present | food | as three days | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | eat | present · perfect | we | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | drink | participle | we not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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