The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 91
'I will change myself into a ship, and will bear you across the seas to Erin, to the land where dwells the king.
Who acts: I · What happens: change, bear, dwell · To what, where: myself, ship, you, seas, king
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), 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 | _ | 4 change | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 change | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | aux |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 change | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bear | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bear | cc |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bear | aux |
| 12 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bear | obj |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 seas | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 seas | det |
| 16 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bear | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Erin | case |
| 18 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 seas | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 land | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | conj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 dwells | advmod |
| 24 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 land | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dwells | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | future | I | myself | into a ship result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into ship=Result | |||
| 2 | bear | future | you | the seas to Erin | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present | the king | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location |
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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