The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 43

'In the leeward, or the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, there is none who could give my chain a shake save only Ian, the soldier's son.

Who acts: none · What happens: be, give, save · To what, where: leeward, chain, Ian

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 (none), 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	_	21 is	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 leeward	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leeward	det
4	leeward	leeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 is	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 windward	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 windward	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 windward	det
8	windward	windward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leeward	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boundaries	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 boundaries	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 boundaries	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boundaries	det
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 boundaries	nummod
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boundaries	amod
15	boundaries	boundary	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leeward	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boundaries	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 leeward	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 save	advcl
22	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 save	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 give	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 none	acl:relcl
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 chain	nmod:poss
27	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 shake	det
29	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
30	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 Ian	advmod
32	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 save	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 son	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 soldier	det
35	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 son	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 soldier	case
37	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Ian	appos
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	present	none not said here		the leeward or the windward or the four brown boundaries of the sea; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leeward=Location
2	give	could		my chain		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent chain=Recipient shake=Theme
3	save	present	none	Ian		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ian=Theme

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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