The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 54
To her, as her most faithful servant, she gave the lucky basket in charge, and besought her to treasure it carefully.
Who acts: queen · What happens: give, beseech, treasure · To what, where: lucky basket, queen, charge, basket
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 (queen), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 her | case |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 servant | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 servant | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 servant | nmod:poss |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 faithful | advmod |
| 7 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 servant | amod |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 her | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 basket | det |
| 13 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 basket | amod |
| 14 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 charge | case |
| 16 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 basket | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 besought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 besought | cc |
| 19 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 besought | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 treasure | mark |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 besought | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 treasure | obj |
| 24 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 22 treasure | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | queen | the lucky basket | queen | charge | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to she=Recipient | ||
| 2 | beseech | past | queen not said here | queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | treasure | to-infinitive | queen not said here | basket | carefully property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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