The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 10
'It is a queen you will be,' answered Ian Direach, 'for the king of Erin has sent me for you, and in return he will give me his bay colt, that I may take him to the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh, in exchange for the White Sword of Light.
Who acts: trick, queen, Ian, king, I · What happens: be, answer, send, give, take · To what, where: queen, Ian, king, bay colt, me, return
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trick, queen, Ian, king), 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 | _ | 5 queen | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 queen | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 queen | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 be | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 be | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 queen | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 queen | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 queen | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ian | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sent | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 sent | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 sent | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Erin | case |
| 20 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sent | aux |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Ian | acl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 sent | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 sent | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 give | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 return | case |
| 29 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 give | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 give | aux |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | conj |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 colt | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 colt | amod |
| 36 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 take | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 take | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 take | nsubj |
| 40 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 take | aux |
| 41 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 give | parataxis |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 take | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 Women | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Women | det |
| 45 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 Women | nummod |
| 46 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Women | amod |
| 47 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 take | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Dhiurradh | case |
| 49 | Dhiurradh | Dhiurradh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Women | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 exchange | punct |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 exchange | case |
| 52 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 take | obl |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 56 Sword | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 Sword | det |
| 55 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 Sword | amod |
| 56 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 exchange | nmod |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 Light | case |
| 58 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Sword | nmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | trick | a queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | a queen | Ian | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ian=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | send | present · perfect · passive | Ian not said here | the king of Erin | for you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | future | king | king's bay colt | me | return | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient colt=Theme | ||
| 5 | take | may | I | king | the Seven Big Women of Dhiurradh | exchange for the White Sword of Light | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=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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