The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 79
What I am going to do is to make my supper off you, in less time than a cock takes to crow.'
Who acts: going, cock · What happens: go, do, be, take, crow
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 (going, cock), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 going | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 make | csubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 supper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | parataxis |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 takes | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cock | det |
| 20 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 takes | nsubj |
| 21 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 crow | mark |
| 23 | crow | crow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 takes | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | going | off you; make property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | present | a cock | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | crow | to-infinitive | a cock not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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