The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 33
'Oh, if you can only do that,' cried the king, 'I shall be grateful to you for life!
Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, cry, be · To what, where: that, king, you
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 (you, I), 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 | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grateful | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 grateful | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 grateful | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 grateful | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 grateful | cop |
| 20 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cried | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 grateful | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grateful | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | shall | I | you | for life; grateful property | tree rules |
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/pg3027/37/33/