The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 7
What you have got to do now is to go on your knees to the king and crave his pardon, and before he consents to a peace you will have to implore him to grant you the favour of becoming his wife.
Who acts: you, king, favour · What happens: get, be, crave, consent, have, implore · To what, where: knees, pardon, king, favour, you, wife
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, favour), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 got | obj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 go | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 do | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 knees | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crave | cc |
| 18 | crave | crave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 20 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crave | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 have | cc |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 consents | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 consents | nsubj |
| 25 | consents | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 peace | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 peace | det |
| 28 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 consents | obl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 have | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | aux |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 implore | mark |
| 33 | implore | implore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 have | xcomp |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 implore | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 grant | mark |
| 36 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 implore | advcl |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 grant | obj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 favour | det |
| 39 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grant | obj |
| 40 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 becoming | mark |
| 41 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 favour | acl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 wife | nmod:poss |
| 43 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 becoming | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive · do-support | your knees | to the king; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crave | infinitive | king's pardon | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pardon=Theme | |||||
| 4 | consent | present | king | to a peace | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to peace=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | implore | to-infinitive | you not said here | king | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | grant | to-infinitive | you not said here | the favour | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal favour=Theme | |||
| 8 | become | gerund | the favour not said here | king's wife | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient wife=Result | ||||
| 9 | pardon | king | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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