The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 60
'For long my brothers on the other side of the mountain have besought me to visit them, but never could I go for fear of my falcon.
Who acts: long brothers, I · What happens: beseech, visit, not go, fear · To what, where: me, brothers, falcon
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 (long brothers, 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 | _ | 5 brothers | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 brothers | case |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brothers | amod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 besought | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brothers | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 besought | aux |
| 14 | besought | beseech | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 besought | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 visit | mark |
| 17 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 besought | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 visit | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 go | cc |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 go | advmod |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 besought | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 fear | case |
| 26 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 falcon | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 falcon | nmod:poss |
| 29 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fear | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | present · perfect | my long brothers on the other side of the mountain | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | my long brothers on the other side of the mountain not said here | brothers = brother | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | not go | could | I | for fear of my falcon | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fear=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | fear | my falcon | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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