The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 3
'Promise that you will give me an honourable burial, and when my body is laid in the grave go in my boat across the fiord, and take whatever you find in my house which belongs to me.
Who acts: Promise, you, house · What happens: give, lay, go, take, find, belong · To what, where: honourable burial, me, body, grave, boat, whatever
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Promise, you, house), 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 | _ | 2 Promise | punct |
| 2 | Promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 give | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Promise | acl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 burial | det |
| 9 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 burial | amod |
| 10 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 laid | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 laid | aux:pass |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Promise | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 grave | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grave | det |
| 20 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obl |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 boat | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 boat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 25 | across | across | ADP | _ | 27 fiord | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fiord | det |
| 27 | fiord | fiord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 take | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 take | cc |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 31 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 take | obj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 find | nsubj |
| 33 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 house | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 house | nmod:poss |
| 36 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 find | obl |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 belongs | nsubj |
| 38 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 house | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 me | case |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 belongs | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | Promise | a honourable burial | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient burial=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | present · passive | my body | the grave | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | Promise | my boat | across the fiord | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across fiord=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | take | infinitive | Promise not said here | whatever | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | present | you | my house | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | belong | present | my house | me | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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