The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 103
And now you shall break me off a piece of tobacco.'
Who acts: you · What happens: break off · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 break | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 break | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 break | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 break | aux |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 break | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 break | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 piece | det |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tobacco | case |
| 11 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 piece | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | shall | you | me | now | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient piece=Result |
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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