The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 121
Instead, seek the middle daughter, and when you have found her, you shall give me a piece of tobacco for reward.'
Who acts: you · What happens: seek, find, give · To what, where: middle daughter, mother, piece, me
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 (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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 seek | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instead | punct |
| 3 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | compound |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seek | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 found | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 seek | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seek | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 piece | det |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tobacco | case |
| 22 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 reward | case |
| 24 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | imperative | you not said here | the middle daughter | instead property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | present · perfect | you | mother | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | shall | you | a piece of tobacco | me | for reward | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme for reward=Asset |
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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