The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 85
'If it is our sword you want, you must first bring us the bay colt of the King of Erin.'
Who acts: shriek, you · What happens: be, want, bring · To what, where: sword, bay colt, us
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 (shriek, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 sword | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sword | cop |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sword | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sword | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bring | aux |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 bring | advmod |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 colt | det |
| 16 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 colt | amod |
| 17 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 colt | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Erin | case |
| 22 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 King | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | shriek | our sword | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present | you | our sword not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | must | you | the bay colt of the King of Erin | us | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination colt=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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