The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 61
Now I think I can leave her with you for one day, and before nightfall I shall be back again.'
Who acts: I · What happens: think, leave, be · To what, where: cow · 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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 think | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 leave | aux |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 back | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 back | cc |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 nightfall | case |
| 16 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 back | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 back | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 back | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 back | cop |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 think | parataxis |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 back | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | can | I | cow | day | with you | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with you=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | shall | I | before nightfall; again | back 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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