The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 24
Be quick and change us both.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, change · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quick | cop |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 change | cc |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 quick | conj |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 change | obj |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | present | you not said here | us | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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