The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 30
'Let the bay colt and the king's daughter hide in these rocks, and I will change myself into the colt, and go with you to the house of the Seven Big Women.'
Who acts: you, daughter, I · What happens: let, bay, hide, change, go · To what, where: bay colt, rocks, myself, colt, house
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 (you, daughter, 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colt | det |
| 4 | bay | bay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 colt | compound |
| 5 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hide | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hide | nsubj |
| 11 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 rocks | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 rocks | det |
| 14 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hide | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 change | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 change | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 change | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 change | aux |
| 19 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | conj |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 change | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 colt | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 colt | det |
| 23 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 change | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 go | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 house | det |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Women | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Women | det |
| 34 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 Women | nummod |
| 35 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Women | amod |
| 36 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 house | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the bay colt | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bay | infinitive | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hide | present | the king's daughter | this rocks | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rock=Location | ||||
| 4 | change | future | I | myself | into the colt result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into colt=Result | |||
| 5 | go | infinitive | you not said here | the house of the Seven Big Women | with you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_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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