The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 125
If you would not fail, wash yourself in clean water, and take balsam from a vessel on top of the door, and rub it over your body, and to-morrow you will be as strong as many men, and I will lead you to the dwelling of the middle one.'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not fail, wash, take, rub over, be, lead · To what, where: yourself, clean water, balsam, vessel, you, dwelling
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, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 fail | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fail | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fail | advmod |
| 5 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wash | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fail | punct |
| 7 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 wash | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 water | amod |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wash | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 wash | conj |
| 15 | balsam | balsam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 vessel | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 vessel | det |
| 18 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rub | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rub | cc |
| 26 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 wash | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rub | obj |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 rub | compound:prt |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 body | nmod:poss |
| 30 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rub | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 strong | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 strong | cc |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 morrow | case |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 to | punct |
| 35 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 strong | obl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 strong | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 strong | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 strong | cop |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 strong | advmod |
| 40 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wash | conj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 men | case |
| 42 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 men | amod |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 strong | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 lead | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 lead | cc |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 lead | nsubj |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 lead | aux |
| 48 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wash | conj |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 lead | obj |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 dwelling | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 dwelling | det |
| 52 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 lead | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 one | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 one | det |
| 55 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 one | amod |
| 56 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 dwelling | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wash | punct |
| 58 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 wash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail a condition, not said to happen | would | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wash | imperative | you not said here | yourself | clean water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | you not said here | balsam | a vessel | on top of the door | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent balsam=Theme on top=Destination | ||
| 4 | rub over | infinitive | you not said here | balsam | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | future | you | to morrow; as many men; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lead | future | I | you | the dwelling of the middle one | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to dwelling=Destination |
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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