The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 67
'Since we have done you wrong,' answered Ian, the youngest, 'build us a ship, and we will go and seek your daughters.
Who acts: we · What happens: do, answer, build, go, seek · To what, where: you, ship, us, daughters
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 (we), 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 5 done | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 done | iobj |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 done | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 youngest | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 youngest | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youngest | det |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 build | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 build | punct |
| 17 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 youngest | parataxis |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 build | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ship | det |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 build | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 build | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 seek | cc |
| 27 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 29 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 seek | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | we | you | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | build | infinitive | a ship | us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary ship=Product | ||||
| 4 | go | future | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | seek | infinitive | we not said here | your daughters | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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