The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 95

‘When better times come,’ her protectress said cheerfully, ‘and you want to look like yourself again, you have only to whisper the words I have taught you into the basket, and say you would like to have your own face once more, and it will be all right in a moment.

Who acts: better times, protectress, you, words, face · What happens: come, say, want, look, have, whisper · To what, where: words, basket, I, you, own face · 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 (better times, protectress, you, words), 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 come	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 times	amod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	’	'	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 protectress	nmod:poss
9	protectress	protectress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
11	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cheerfully	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 want	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 want	xcomp
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 yourself	case
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 look	obl
21	again	again	ADV	_	18 look	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 want	conj
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 whisper	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 whisper	mark
27	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 words	det
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 whisper	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 taught	nsubj:pass
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 taught	aux
32	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 words	acl:relcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 taught	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 basket	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 basket	det
36	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whisper	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 say	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 say	cc
39	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 want	parataxis
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 like	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 like	aux
42	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 say	ccomp
43	to	to	PART	_	44 have	mark
44	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 like	xcomp
45	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 face	nmod:poss
46	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 face	amod
47	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 have	obj
48	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	49 more	advmod
49	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 have	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 right	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 right	cc
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 right	nsubj
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 right	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 right	cop
55	all	all	ADV	_	56 right	advmod
56	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	conj
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 moment	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 moment	det
59	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 right	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	better times						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Dotterine's protectress					cheerfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	want	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				again	like yourself	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	have	present	you						tree rules
6	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	the words		the basket			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic into basket=Recipient
7	teach speech: other	present · perfect · passive	the words not said here	I	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
8	say speech: assert	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	like	would	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	your own face					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
11	is	future	face				moment	all, right property	tree rules

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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