The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 180

‘Oh, I was standing here because it has just occurred to me that I should like to stay in your service for another year.

Who acts: I, your · What happens: stand, occur, like, stay, service · To what, where: ground, me, service

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 (I, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:1172): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 standing	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 standing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 standing	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 occurred	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 occurred	expl
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 occurred	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 occurred	advmod
12	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 standing	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 occurred	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 like	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 occurred	csubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 stay	mark
20	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 service	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 service	nmod:poss
23	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stay	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 year	case
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 year	det
26	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stay	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	I			here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	occur	present · perfect	I not said here	ground	me			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			your service	year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in service=Location
5	service		your					nom service «act transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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