The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 78
'To reach the daughters of the knight of Grianaig you must get into this basket, and be drawn by a rope up the face of this rock.'
Who acts: you, rope · What happens: reach, get, draw · To what, where: daughters, basket
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, rope), 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 | _ | 3 reach | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 reach | mark |
| 3 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 daughters | det |
| 5 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reach | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 knight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knight | det |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughters | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Grianaig | case |
| 10 | Grianaig | Grianaig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knight | nmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reach | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 basket | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 basket | det |
| 16 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drawn | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drawn | cc |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 drawn | aux:pass |
| 20 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reach | advcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 rope | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rope | det |
| 23 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drawn | obl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 face | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 face | det |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drawn | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 rock | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 rock | det |
| 29 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 face | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reach | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | to-infinitive | the daughters of the knight of Grianaig | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | must | you | this basket | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into basket=Destination | ||||
| 3 | draw | infinitive · passive | a rope | up the face of this rock | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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