The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 49
'Then who are you in the leeward, or the windward, or in the four brown boundaries of the sea, who are able to shake my battle chain?
Who acts: sea · What happens: be, shake · To what, where: leeward, battle chain
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 (sea), 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 | _ | 8 leeward | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 leeward | advmod |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 leeward | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 leeward | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 leeward | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 leeward | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 leeward | det |
| 8 | leeward | leeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 windward | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 windward | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 windward | det |
| 12 | windward | windward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leeward | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 boundaries | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 boundaries | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 boundaries | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boundaries | det |
| 17 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 boundaries | nummod |
| 18 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boundaries | amod |
| 19 | boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leeward | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boundaries | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 able | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sea | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 shake | mark |
| 28 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 chain | nmod:poss |
| 30 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 chain | compound |
| 31 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shake | obj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 leeward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the leeward or the windward or the four brown boundaries of the sea | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the sea | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shake | to-infinitive | the sea not said here | my battle chain | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chain=Patient |
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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