The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 35
'I am setting it on you as crosses and as spells, and as the fall of the year!
Who acts: I · What happens: set · To what, where: feather
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 (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 | _ | 4 setting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 setting | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 setting | aux |
| 4 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 setting | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 setting | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 crosses | case |
| 9 | crosses | cross | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 setting | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spells | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 spells | case |
| 12 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crosses | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fall | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fall | cc |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 fall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fall | det |
| 17 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 setting | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fall | nmod |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 setting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · progressive | I | feather | on you; as crosses and spells; as the fall of the year | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on you=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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