The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 67
'Repeat this for three nights, and you will find yourself cured,' said he.
Who acts: you, yourself, king · What happens: repeat, find, cure, say · To what, where: this, yourself · 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, yourself, king), 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 | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 2 | Repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Repeat | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 nights | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nights | nummod |
| 6 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Repeat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 find | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Repeat | conj |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 find | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | infinitive | this | night | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | yourself | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cure | participle | yourself not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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