The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 26
'I will become a ship,' cried Gille Mairtean, 'and you shall go on board me.'
Who acts: I, you · What happens: become, cry, go · To what, where: ship, Gille
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 (I, 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 | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gille | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 19 | board | board | ADP | _ | 18 on | fixed |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | future | I | a ship | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Gille | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gille=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | shall | you | on me | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on i=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/26/