The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 88
In the evening he called the prince and said: ‘To-morrow I have no work for you, but when I wake you must come before my bed, and give me your hand in greeting.’
Who acts: friend, I, you · What happens: call, say, have, wake, come, give · To what, where: prince, work, bed, hand, me, greeting · 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 (friend, I, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 12 | To | to | ADP | _ | 14 morrow | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 To | punct |
| 14 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 work | det |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 come | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 wake | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 wake | nsubj |
| 25 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | advcl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 come | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | parataxis |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 bed | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 bed | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 come | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 give | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 give | cc |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 come | conj |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 hand | nmod:poss |
| 37 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 greeting | case |
| 39 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | friend | the prince | evening | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | friend not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | no work | to morrow; for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | |||
| 4 | wake | present | I | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | come | must | you | my bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before bed=Location | ||||
| 6 | give | infinitive | you not said here | your hand | me | greeting | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=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 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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