The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 76
I will change myself into a boat, and you shall go on board me, and I will carry you over the sea to the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: change, go, carry · To what, where: myself, boat, you, Seven Big Women, sea
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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 change | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 change | aux |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 change | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 change | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 change | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 14 | board | board | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carry | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | aux |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 change | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Women | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Women | det |
| 27 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 Women | nummod |
| 28 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Women | amod |
| 29 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Dhiurradh | case |
| 31 | Dhiurradh | Dhiurradh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Women | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | future | I | myself | into a boat result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into boat=Result | |||
| 2 | go | shall | you | on me | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on i=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | future | I | you | the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh | the sea | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to woman=Destination |
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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