The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 50

‘We must make all the haste we can,’ said she, ‘before the old man himself comes to seek us, for he will know us under any disguise.’

Who acts: We, maiden, prince · What happens: make, say, come, seek, know · To what, where: haste, old man, us, disguise · 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 (We, maiden, prince), 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	_	4 make	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 haste	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 haste	det
7	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 can	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 haste	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ‘	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
16	before	before	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ‘	obl
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 comes	nsubj
21	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 man	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 seek	mark
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 comes	xcomp
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 seek	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 know	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seek	conj
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 know	obj
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 disguise	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 disguise	det
33	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 know	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	must	We	all haste		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	maiden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present	prince	the old man not said here		tree rules
4	seek	to-infinitive	prince not said here	us		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	know	future	prince	us	any disguise	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus

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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