The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 20
‘Oh, I will obey you exactly,’ cried the queen, ‘and if you can help me you shall have in return anything you ask for.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: obey, cry, help, have, ask · To what, where: you, queen, me, anything
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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 obey | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 obey | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 obey | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 obey | aux |
| 6 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 obey | obj |
| 8 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 obey | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obey | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ‘ | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 queen | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 help | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | aux |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 help | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 anything | case |
| 26 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 anything | compound |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 have | obl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 ask | nsubj |
| 29 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 anything | acl:relcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 ask | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obey | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | future | I | you | exactly property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the queen and ‘ | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | |||||
| 3 | help a condition, not said to happen | can | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | have | shall | you | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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