The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 91
'You are Ian the soldier's son, and a spell is laid upon you to travel in our company, to the cave of the black fisherman.'
Who acts: You · What happens: be, lay, travel · To what, where: Ian, spell, company
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), 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 Ian | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 Ian | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ian | cop |
| 4 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldier | det |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 soldier | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ian | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laid | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spell | det |
| 12 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 laid | aux:pass |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Ian | parataxis |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 travel | mark |
| 18 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 laid | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 company | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 company | nmod:poss |
| 21 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 travel | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cave | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 cave | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cave | det |
| 25 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 travel | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 fisherman | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fisherman | det |
| 28 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fisherman | amod |
| 29 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cave | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ian | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ian | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | Ian | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present · passive | a spell | upon you | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | our company | to the cave of the black fisherman | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination |
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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