The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 78
‘To morrow I have got an idiot’s work,’ said he; ‘nothing but to take the white-headed calf to the meadow.’
Who acts: I, prince, idiot · What happens: get, say, take, work · To what, where: work, headed calf, meadow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, prince, idiot), 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 | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 idiot | det |
| 8 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 idiot | case |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 nothing | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 nothing | punct |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nothing | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 calf | det |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 headed | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 white | punct |
| 24 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 calf | amod |
| 25 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 meadow | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 meadow | det |
| 28 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 nothing | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | I | a idiot's work | to morrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the headed calf | the meadow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent calf=Theme to meadow=Destination | |||
| 4 | work | a idiot | nom work «act intransitive»: 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 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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