The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 33
Only you must unfasten the halter you lead it with and bring it back, and don't return by the high road, but through the forest.'
Who acts: you · What happens: unfasten, lead, bring back, not return · To what, where: halter, forest
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), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 unfasten | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 unfasten | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 unfasten | aux |
| 4 | unfasten | unfasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 halter | det |
| 6 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unfasten | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 lead | nsubj |
| 8 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 halter | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lead | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 lead | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unfasten | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 return | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 return | cc |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 return | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 return | advmod |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 unfasten | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 road | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 road | det |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 road | amod |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 return | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forest | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 forest | cc |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 return | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unfasten | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 unfasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfasten | must | you | the halter | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lead | present | you | halter | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring back | infinitive | you not said here | halter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not return | infinitive · do-support | the forest | by the high road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location |
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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