The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 77

Tell them that you are skilled in brightening silver and gold, and in the end they will take you as servant, and if you are careful to please them they will give you the White Sword of Light to make bright and shining.

Who acts: you, Women · What happens: tell, be, brighten, take, please, give · To what, where: Women, silver, you, end, White Sword · 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 (you, Women), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 skilled	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 skilled	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 skilled	cop
6	skilled	skilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 brightening	mark
8	brightening	brighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 skilled	advcl
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brightening	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gold	cc
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 silver	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 take	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 servant	case
22	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 give	cc
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 careful	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 careful	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 careful	cop
28	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 give	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 please	mark
30	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 careful	xcomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 please	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Sword	det
37	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Sword	amod
38	Sword	Sword	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 give	iobj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Light	case
40	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Sword	nmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 make	mark
42	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 give	advcl
43	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 make	xcomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 shining	cc
45	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 bright	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		Women = woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	present	you				skilled property	tree rules
3	brighten	gerund	you not said here	silver and gold				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent silver=Patient
4	take	future	Women = woman	you		in the end	as servant	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Theme as servant=Attribute
5	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you				careful property	tree rules
6	please	to-infinitive	you not said here	Women = woman				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
7	give	future	Women = woman		the White Sword of Light			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sword=Theme
8	make	to-infinitive	Women = woman not said here				bright property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
9	shine	gerund	Women = woman not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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