The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 104
You must keep these rooms clean, and strew sand on the floor every day.
Who acts: You · What happens: keep, strew · To what, where: rooms, sand, floor
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 rooms | det |
| 5 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 strew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strew | cc |
| 9 | strew | strew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | conj |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strew | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strew | obl |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strew | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | must | You | this rooms | clean property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 2 | strew | infinitive | You not said here | sand | the floor | day | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sand=Theme on floor=Destination |
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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