The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 34
Give your own orders; they shall be obeyed.'
Who acts: you, your · What happens: give, obey, order · To what, where: own orders, orders
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, your), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 orders | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 orders | amod |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 obeyed | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 obeyed | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 9 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | your own orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | obey | shall · passive | orders = order | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | order | your | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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