The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 71
You can't think how delicious it is to put your head under the water and dive straight to the bottom.'
Who acts: You, water · What happens: not think, be, put, dive · To what, where: head, water, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, water), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 delicious | advmod |
| 6 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 delicious | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 delicious | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dive | cc |
| 17 | dive | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | conj |
| 18 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 21 bottom | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 bottom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bottom | det |
| 21 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dive | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | can | You | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | water | delicious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | your head | the water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme under water=Destination | ||||
| 4 | dive | infinitive | the bottom | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=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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