The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 104
‘Very much,’ replied Dotterine, ‘if my present mistress will allow me.’
Who acts: present mistress · What happens: reply, allow · To what, where: Dotterine, me
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 (present mistress), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 much | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 much | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 allow | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 allow | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 allow | mark |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 12 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mistress | amod |
| 13 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 allow | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 allow | aux |
| 15 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 allow | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Dotterine | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dotterine=Topic | |||||
| 2 | allow a condition, not said to happen | future | my present mistress | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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