The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 100
‘If you are really in earnest, let us go and feast for three days: that will at any rate give you three extra days of life.’
Who acts: you, us, earnest · What happens: be, let, go, feast, give · To what, where: rate, us, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, earnest), 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 earnest | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 earnest | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 earnest | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 earnest | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 earnest | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 earnest | case |
| 7 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 give | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 earnest | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feast | cc |
| 13 | feast | feast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 days | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 days | nummod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 feast | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 will | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 will | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 earnest | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 rate | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 rate | det |
| 22 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earnest | obl |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 days | nummod |
| 26 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 days | amod |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 give | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 days | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | any rate | earn property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feast | infinitive | us not said here | day | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | give | present | earnest | you | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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