The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 19

‘Just weaving a chin strap to bind your jaws together, in case you might wish to eat any more!’

Who acts: you · What happens: weave, bind, wish, eat · To what, where: chin strap, jaws

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	3 weaving	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 weaving	advmod
3	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 strap	det
5	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strap	compound
6	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weaving	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bind	mark
8	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 weaving	advcl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 jaws	nmod:poss
10	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bind	obj
11	together	together	ADV	_	8 bind	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
13	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 wish	mark
14	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 in	fixed
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wish	aux
17	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bind	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wish	xcomp
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 more	det
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 eat	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 weaving	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 weaving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weave	gerund		a chin strap		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strap=Product
2	bind	to-infinitive		your jaws	together property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient
3	wish	might	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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