The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 58
And before I go you shall give me a piece of tobacco.'
Who acts: I, you · What happens: go, give · To what, where: piece, 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 (I, 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 | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tobacco | case |
| 12 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | shall | you | a piece of tobacco | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=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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