The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 68

Let them be to windward, or to leeward, or under the four brown boundaries of the sea, we will find them before a year and a day goes by, and will carry them back to Grianaig.'

Who acts: you, daughters, we, day · What happens: let, be, find, go by, carry back · To what, where: daughters, Grianaig

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, daughters, we, day), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 windward	case
5	windward	windward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 be	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leeward	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 leeward	cc
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 leeward	case
9	leeward	leeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boundaries	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 boundaries	cc
12	under	under	ADP	_	16 boundaries	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boundaries	det
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 boundaries	nummod
15	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boundaries	amod
16	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 leeward	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boundaries	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 find	obj
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 year	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 goes	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 goes	nsubj
31	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 find	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	31 goes	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 carry	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 carry	cc
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 carry	aux
36	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 carry	obj
38	back	back	ADV	_	36 carry	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 Grianaig	case
40	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 carry	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	daughters = daughter			to leeward	tree rules
2	be	infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here				to windward	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	future	we	daughters = daughter		year		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	go by	present	a day					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry back	future	you not said here	daughters = daughter	Grianaig			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to grianaig=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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