The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 48
I will show you the way to his house, and I counsel you to do his bidding, nimbly and cheerfully, and, above all, to treat his birds kindly, for in this manner he may give you his falcon to feed and care for.
Who acts: I, all, Falcon · What happens: show, counsel, do, treat, give, feed · To what, where: way, you, bidding, birds, falcon, manner
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, all, Falcon), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | aux |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 show | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 counsel | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 counsel | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 counsel | nsubj |
| 13 | counsel | counsel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 counsel | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 counsel | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 nimbly | punct |
| 20 | nimbly | nimbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bidding | appos |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cheerfully | cc |
| 22 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 20 nimbly | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 treat | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 treat | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 all | punct |
| 26 | above | above | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 treat | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 treat | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 treat | mark |
| 30 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 show | parataxis |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 birds | nmod:poss |
| 32 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 treat | obj |
| 33 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 30 treat | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 give | punct |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 give | mark |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 manner | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 manner | det |
| 38 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 give | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 give | nsubj |
| 40 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 give | aux |
| 41 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 show | parataxis |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 give | iobj |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 falcon | nmod:poss |
| 44 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 give | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 feed | mark |
| 46 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 give | advcl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 care | cc |
| 48 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 feed | conj |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 care | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | I | the way | you | to Falcon's house | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic | ||
| 2 | counsel speech: other | present | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | Falcon's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | treat | to-infinitive | all | Falcon's birds | kindly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | |||
| 5 | give | may | Falcon | Falcon's falcon | you | this manner | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient falcon=Theme | ||
| 6 | feed | to-infinitive | Falcon not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | care | infinitive | Falcon not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | bid | Falcon | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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