The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 22
'Only a good horse, if your majesty will be kind enough to give me one,' answered Gilguerillo.
Who acts: majesty, good horse · What happens: be, give, answer · To what, where: one, me, Gilguerillo
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 (majesty, good horse), 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 | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 horse | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kind | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 kind | mark |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kind | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 kind | cop |
| 12 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | conj |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 kind | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 kind | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Gilguerillo | Gilguerillo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | future | your majesty | enough, kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | your majesty not said here | one | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | a good horse | Gilguerillo | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gilguerillo=Eventuality |
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/pg3027/38/22/