The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 39
'Shake the iron chain that hangs outside the gate.'
Who acts: you, iron chain · What happens: shake, hang · To what, where: iron chain, 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 (you, 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 | _ | 2 Shake | punct |
| 2 | Shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chain | det |
| 4 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chain | compound |
| 5 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Shake | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hangs | nsubj |
| 7 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chain | acl:relcl |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 10 gate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gate | det |
| 10 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hangs | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shake | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | the iron chain | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | the 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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