The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 39

'He speaks false; and if he does not bring me the man who really made the cap I will hang him on the tree beside my window.'

Who acts: Ian, man, I · What happens: speak, not bring, make, hang · To what, where: man, me, cap, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ian, man, I), 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	_	3 speaks	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speaks	nsubj
3	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speaks	xcomp
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hang	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hang	cc
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 bring	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bring	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bring	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bring	advmod
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hang	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bring	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 made	nsubj
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 made	advmod
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 man	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cap	det
19	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hang	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hang	aux
22	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 speaks	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hang	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hang	obl
27	beside	beside	ADP	_	29 window	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 window	nmod:poss
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hang	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 speaks	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 speaks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	Ian				false property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not bring a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	Ian	the man	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination man=Theme
3	make	past	the man	the cap				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Product
4	hang	future	I	man		the tree	beside my window	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on tree=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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