The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 100
Lead the way, but I warn you that if you try to escape or play any tricks you are reckoning without your host-- that is to say, without my legs, which are as long as yours!'
Who acts: you, I, that, legs · What happens: lead, warn, try, escape, play, reckon · To what, where: way, you, tricks
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, that, legs), 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 | Lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lead | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 warn | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 warn | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 warn | nsubj |
| 7 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lead | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 warn | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 try | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 try | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 try | nsubj |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 warn | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 escape | mark |
| 14 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 try | xcomp |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 play | cc |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 escape | conj |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 tricks | det |
| 18 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 play | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 reckoning | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 reckoning | aux |
| 21 | reckoning | reckon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 tricks | acl:relcl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 host | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 host | nmod:poss |
| 24 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reckoning | obl |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 say | punct |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 say | nsubj:outer |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 say | cop |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 say | mark |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 warn | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 legs | punct |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 legs | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 legs | nmod:poss |
| 33 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 say | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 long | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 long | nsubj |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 long | cop |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | _ | 38 long | advmod |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 legs | amod |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 yours | case |
| 40 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 long | obl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lead | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | imperative | you not said here | the way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | present | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | try a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | play | infinitive | you not said here | any tricks | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | ||||
| 6 | reckon | present · progressive | you | any tricks not said here | without your host | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent trick=Attribute | |||
| 7 | is | present | that | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | present | my legs | as yours; long property | tree rules |
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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