The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 15
Do not drive it away, but take it to the castle and sell it to the duke, and they will give you ten dollars for it; only you must bring the strap you lead it with, back to the house.'
Who acts: you, parents · What happens: not drive away, take, sell, give, bring, lead · To what, where: dog, castle, duke, ten dollars, you, strap
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, parents), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 drive | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 drive | advmod |
| 3 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drive | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drive | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 drive | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sell | cc |
| 14 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sell | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 duke | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 duke | det |
| 18 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 give | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 dollars | nummod |
| 26 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 give | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 give | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 bring | punct |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 bring | advmod |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 bring | aux |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drive | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 strap | det |
| 35 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lead | obj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 lead | nsubj |
| 37 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 bring | ccomp |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 lead | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 lead | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 back | punct |
| 41 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 bring | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 house | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 house | det |
| 44 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 back | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drive | punct |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drive away | imperative · do-support | you not said here | dog | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | dog | the castle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 3 | sell | infinitive | you not said here | dog | the duke | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to duke=Recipient | |||
| 4 | give | future | parents = parent | ten dollars | you | for dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dollar=Theme for it=Asset | ||
| 5 | bring | must | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | lead | present | you | the strap | tree rules |
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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