The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 10
Go in peace, and may heaven give you a glorious victory!’
Who acts: you, heaven · What happens: go, give · To what, where: peace, glorious victory, you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, heaven), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 peace | case |
| 3 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 give | cc |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 7 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 victory | det |
| 11 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 victory | amod |
| 12 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | peace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | may | heaven | a glorious victory | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient victory=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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