The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 55

‘When my daughter,’ said the queen, ‘is ten years old, you are to hand it over to her, but warn her solemnly that her whole future happiness depends on the way she guards it.

Who acts: daughter, ‘, you, whole future happiness, queen · What happens: say, be, warn, depend, guard · To what, where: queen, ‘ · 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 (daughter, ‘, you, whole future happiness), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 said	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughter	nmod:poss
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 daughter	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 daughter	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 old	punct
11	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 old	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 old	cop
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 queen	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hand	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 hand	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hand	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hand	mark
20	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hand	obj
22	over	over	ADP	_	20 hand	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hand	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 warn	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 warn	cc
27	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hand	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 warn	obj
29	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	27 warn	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 depends	mark
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 happiness	nmod:poss
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 happiness	amod
33	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 happiness	compound
34	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 depends	nsubj
35	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 warn	advcl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 way	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 depends	obl
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 guards	nsubj
40	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 way	acl:relcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 guards	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my daughter	the queen				tree rules
2	is	present	‘	the queen not said here		year	old property	tree rules
3	is	present	you		queen		hand property	tree rules
4	warn speech: warn	infinitive	you not said here		queen		solemnly property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	depend	present	queen's whole future happiness				on the way	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on way=Theme
6	guard	present	queen	‘				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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