The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 3

'Nought will bring him but a shake of that iron chain which hangs outside the gate.

Who acts: Nought, iron chain · What happens: bring, hang · To what, where: Ian, gate

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 (Nought, iron chain), 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	_	4 bring	punct
2	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 bring	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 shake	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shake	det
8	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 chain	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 chain	det
11	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chain	compound
12	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shake	nmod
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hangs	nsubj
14	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 chain	acl:relcl
15	outside	outside	ADP	_	17 gate	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hangs	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	future	Nought		Ian				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	hang	present	that iron chain			the gate			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside gate=Location

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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