The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 89
But if the fox resigns herself to the sacrifice, the mother offers you one last request.'
Who acts: fox, mother · What happens: resign, offer · To what, where: glory, sacrifice, one last request, you
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 (fox, mother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 offers | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 resigns | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resigns | nsubj |
| 5 | resigns | resign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 offers | advcl |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 resigns | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sacrifice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sacrifice | det |
| 9 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resigns | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 resigns | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mother | det |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offers | nsubj |
| 13 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 offers | iobj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 request | nummod |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 request | amod |
| 17 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offers | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 offers | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 offers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resign a condition, not said to happen | present | the fox | glory | the sacrifice | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to sacrifice=Recipient | |||
| 2 | offer | present | the mother | one last request | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=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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