The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 65
'If you wish for my falcon you must first bring me the White Sword of Light that is in the house of the Big Women of Dhiurradh.'
Who acts: you, Light · What happens: wish, bring, be · To what, where: White Sword, me, house
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 (you, Light), 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 | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wish | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 falcon | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 falcon | nmod:poss |
| 7 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 bring | advmod |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sword | det |
| 14 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Sword | amod |
| 15 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Light | case |
| 17 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Sword | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 house | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 house | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Light | acl:relcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Women | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Women | det |
| 25 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Women | amod |
| 26 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 house | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Dhiurradh | case |
| 28 | Dhiurradh | Dhiurradh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Women | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | for my falcon | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for falcon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | must | you | the White Sword of Light | me | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sword=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | present | Light | the house | of the Big Women of Dhiurradh | 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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