The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 80
Let us give him the White Sword of Light to polish like the rest.'
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, give, polish · To what, where: us, White Sword
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, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sword | det |
| 6 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Sword | amod |
| 7 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 give | iobj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Light | case |
| 9 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sword | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 polish | mark |
| 11 | polish | polish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | advcl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 rest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 polish | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | us not said here | the White Sword of Light | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | polish | to-infinitive | us not said here | like the rest | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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