The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 195
However, I will do my best to protect you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: do, protect · To what, where: best, 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 (I), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 best | nmod:poss |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 protect | mark |
| 9 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 best | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 protect | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | my best | however property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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