The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 88
Am I to give you tobacco for trying to peck my eyes out?' answered Ian.
Who acts: I, tobacco · What happens: give, try, peck out, answer · To what, where: tobacco, you, eyes, Ian
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 (I, tobacco), 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 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 trying | mark |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 tobacco | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 peck | mark |
| 10 | peck | peck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 peck | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 peck | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 17 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | tobacco | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient tobacco=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | gerund | tobacco not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | peck out not said to happen | to-infinitive | tobacco not said here | my eyes | out property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | I not said here | Ian | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ian=Eventuality |
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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