The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 97

'You have given me faithful service, and now I will entrust you with the most precious thing that my kingdom holds.'

Who acts: You, I, kingdom · What happens: give, entrust, hold · To what, where: faithful service, me, you, precious thing

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, kingdom), 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 given	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 given	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 given	iobj
6	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 service	amod
7	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 entrust	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 entrust	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 entrust	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 entrust	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 entrust	aux
13	entrust	entrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 entrust	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 thing	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thing	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 precious	advmod
18	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entrust	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 holds	obj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 kingdom	nmod:poss
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holds	nsubj
23	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thing	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · perfect	You	faithful service	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient service=Theme
2	entrust	future	I		you	now	with the precious thing	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with thing=Theme
3	hold	present	my kingdom	the precious thing				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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