The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 24
'You shall have the horse,' he said at last, 'and I shall expect you back in a fortnight.
Who acts: You, horse, I · What happens: have, say, expect back · To what, where: horse, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, horse, 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 expect | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 expect | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 expect | aux |
| 18 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 expect | obj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 expect | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fortnight | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fortnight | det |
| 23 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 expect | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | You | the horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | expect back | shall | I | you | fortnight | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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