The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 110

'Then who are you in the leeward, or in the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, who are able to move my battle- chain?'

Who acts: four brown boundaries · What happens: be, move · To what, where: leeward, battle chain

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four brown boundaries), 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	_	8 leeward	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 leeward	advmod
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 leeward	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 leeward	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 leeward	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 leeward	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leeward	det
8	leeward	leeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 windward	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 windward	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 windward	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 windward	det
13	windward	windward	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leeward	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boundaries	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 boundaries	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 boundaries	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boundaries	det
18	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 boundaries	nummod
19	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boundaries	amod
20	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leeward	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sea	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 boundaries	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 able	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boundaries	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 move	mark
29	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 chain	nmod:poss
31	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 chain	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 battle	punct
33	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 move	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 leeward	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 leeward	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present			the leeward or the windward	then		tree rules
2	is	present	the four brown boundaries of the sea				able property	tree rules
3	move	to-infinitive	the four brown boundaries of the sea not said here	my battle chain				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chain=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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