The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 42
'Fortune is against you, Ian Direach; I have but the cheek and the hoof of a sheep to give you, and with these you must be content.'
Who acts: Fortune, you · What happens: be, have, give · To what, where: cheek, you
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 (Fortune, 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 | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 2 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 you | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 you | cop |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ian | punct |
| 7 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 you | conj |
| 8 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ian | flat |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 cheek | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cheek | det |
| 14 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hoof | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hoof | det |
| 17 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cheek | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sheep | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sheep | det |
| 20 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hoof | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 give | mark |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hoof | acl:relcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 content | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 content | cc |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 these | case |
| 27 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 content | obl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 content | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 content | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 content | cop |
| 31 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fortune | against you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | the cheek and the hoof of a sheep | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | must | you | with these; content property | tree rules |
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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