The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 36
That you may always be cold, and wet and dirty, and that your shoes may ever have pools in them, till you bring me hither the blue falcon on which that feather grew.'
Who acts: That, shoes, you, feather · What happens: be, have, bring, grow · To what, where: pools, blue falcon, 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 (That, shoes, you, feather), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cold | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 cold | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cold | cop |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wet | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wet | cc |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cold | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dirty | cc |
| 11 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cold | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cold | parataxis |
| 20 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pools | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 bring | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | nsubj |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | iobj |
| 28 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 26 bring | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 falcon | det |
| 30 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 falcon | amod |
| 31 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 grew | obl |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 feather | det |
| 35 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grew | nsubj |
| 36 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 falcon | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | That | always, cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | That not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | That not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | have | may | your shoes | pools | ever | in pools = pool | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Patient | ||
| 5 | bring | present | you | the blue falcon | me | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination falcon=Theme | ||
| 6 | grow | past | that feather | on the blue falcon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location |
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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