The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 42
'Let the princess and the White Sword of Light, and the bay colt, remain among the rocks, and I will change myself into the likeness of the White Sword of Light, and you shall bear me to the giant, and, instead, he will give you the blue falcon.'
Who acts: you, bay colt, I, colt · What happens: let, remain, change, bear, give · To what, where: princess, rocks, myself, likeness, me, blue falcon
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, bay colt, I, colt), 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 | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Sword | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sword | det |
| 7 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Sword | amod |
| 8 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 princess | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Light | case |
| 10 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sword | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remain | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 remain | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 colt | det |
| 14 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 colt | amod |
| 15 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remain | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 colt | punct |
| 17 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 rocks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rocks | det |
| 20 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 remain | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 change | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 change | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 change | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 change | aux |
| 25 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 remain | conj |
| 26 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 change | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 likeness | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 likeness | det |
| 29 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 change | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Sword | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Sword | det |
| 32 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Sword | amod |
| 33 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 likeness | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Light | case |
| 35 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sword | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bear | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bear | cc |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 bear | nsubj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 bear | aux |
| 40 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 change | conj |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 bear | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 giant | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 giant | det |
| 44 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bear | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 give | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 give | cc |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 and | punct |
| 48 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 52 give | advmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 instead | punct |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 give | nsubj |
| 51 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 give | aux |
| 52 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | conj |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 give | iobj |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 falcon | det |
| 55 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 falcon | amod |
| 56 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 give | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 58 | ' | ' | 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 princess and the White Sword of Light | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | present | the bay colt | the rocks | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among rock=Location | ||||
| 3 | change | future | I | myself | into the likeness of the White Sword of Light result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into likeness=Result | |||
| 4 | bear | shall | you | me | to the giant | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 5 | give | future | colt | the blue falcon | you | instead property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient falcon=Theme |
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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