The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 37

'If it is spells you are laying I can lay them too,' answered Ian Direach; 'and you shall stand with one foot on the great house and another on the castle, till I come back again, and your face shall be to the wind, from wheresoever it shall blow.'

Who acts: feather, spells, I, you, face · What happens: be, lay, answer, stand, come back, blow · To what, where: spells, Ian Direach, great house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (feather, spells, I, 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	_	8 laying	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 spells	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spells	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spells	cop
5	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 laying	nsubj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 laying	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laying	aux
8	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 answered	ccomp
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	aux
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 laying	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	obj
13	too	too	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laying	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 laying	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Direach	compound
18	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 answered	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stand	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 stand	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stand	aux
24	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 answered	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 foot	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 foot	nummod
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stand	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 house	amod
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stand	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 another	cc
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 house	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 castle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 castle	det
36	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 another	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 come	punct
38	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 come	mark
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 come	nsubj
40	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stand	parataxis
41	back	back	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
42	again	again	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 wind	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 wind	cc
45	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 face	nmod:poss
46	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 wind	nsubj
47	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 wind	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 wind	cop
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 wind	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 wind	det
51	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 come	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 blow	punct
53	from	from	ADP	_	54 wheresoever	case
54	wheresoever	wheresoever	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	57 blow	obl
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 blow	nsubj
56	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 blow	aux
57	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 come	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 stand	punct
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	feather	spells					tree rules
2	lay	present · progressive	spells						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lay	can	I	spells = spell					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result
4	answer speech: assert	past			Ian Direach				tree rules
5	stand	shall	you			the great house		with one foot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on house=Location
6	come back	present	I				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	shall	your face					to the wind	tree rules
8	blow	shall	feather						vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from wheresoever=Co-Patient

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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