The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 103
‘Would you not like to come and enter my service?’ she asked.
Who acts: you, lady, my · What happens: not like, come, enter, ask, service · To what, where: service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lady, my), 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 | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 enter | cc |
| 9 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 service | nmod:poss |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enter | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enter | infinitive | you not said here | my service | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | lady | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | service | my | nom service «act transitive»: 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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