The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 11

This I must carry to the giant of the Five Heads and Five Necks and Five Humps, and, in place of it, he will bestow on me the blue falcon, which I have promised my stepmother, so that she may free me from the spell which she has laid on me.'

Who acts: This, place · What happens: carry, bestow, promise, lay · To what, where: giant, blue falcon, stepmother, spell

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 (This, place), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 carry	nsubj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 carry	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 giant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Heads	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Heads	det
10	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 Heads	nummod
11	Heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 giant	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Necks	cc
13	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 Necks	nummod
14	Necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 Heads	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Humps	cc
16	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 Humps	nummod
17	Humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 Heads	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bestow	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bestow	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 place	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 place	case
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bestow	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 place	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 place	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bestow	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 bestow	aux
28	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 carry	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 bestow	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 falcon	det
32	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 falcon	amod
33	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bestow	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 promised	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 promised	nsubj:pass
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 promised	nsubj:pass
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 promised	aux
38	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 falcon	acl:relcl
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 stepmother	nmod:poss
40	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 promised	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 free	punct
42	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	46 free	mark
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 so	fixed
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 free	nsubj
45	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 free	aux
46	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bestow	parataxis
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 free	obl
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 spell	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 spell	det
50	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 free	obl
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 laid	nsubj:pass
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 laid	nsubj
53	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 laid	aux
54	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 spell	acl:relcl
55	on	on	ADP	_	56 me	case
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 laid	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct
58	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	carry	must	This		the giant of the Five Heads and Five Necks and Five Humps		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to giant=Destination
2	bestow	future	place of giant	the blue falcon		on me	tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	present · perfect · passive		the blue falcon	my stepmother		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal stepmother=Theme
4	lay	present · perfect · passive		the spell		on me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on i=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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