The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 105
'If you want my bay colt, you must first bring me the daughter of the king of the Franks.'
Who acts: you · What happens: want, bring · To what, where: bay colt, daughter, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. 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 | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 want | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 colt | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 colt | amod |
| 7 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 bring | advmod |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Franks | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Franks | det |
| 21 | Franks | frank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 king | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | my bay colt | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | must | you | the daughter of the king of the Franks | me | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination daughter=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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