The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 3

‘Bring them to me, however you may find them, for have them I must!’ he said.

Who acts: you, I, goblin · What happens: bring, find, have, say · To what, where: fugitives, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, goblin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:870): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Bring	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Bring	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 find	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	10 find	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 find	aux
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Bring	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 find	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Bring	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	infinitive		fugitives = fugitive	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination
2	find	may	you	fugitives = fugitive		however property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	have	must	I	fugitives = fugitive			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	goblin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/11/3/