The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 76

Suppose you enter her service for three days, which are as long as one of your years, and she will pay you each day seven sacks full of ducats.’

Who acts: you, three days, mother · What happens: suppose, enter, be, pay, service · To what, where: you, 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 (you, three days, mother), 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	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Suppose	obj
3	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	xcomp
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 service	nmod:poss
5	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enter	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 enter	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 long	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 days	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 long	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 years	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 years	nmod:poss
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pay	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pay	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 pay	aux
23	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 pay	obj
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pay	obl:unmarked
27	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 sacks	nummod
28	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pay	conj
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sacks	amod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 ducats	case
31	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 full	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme
2	enter	infinitive	you not said here	mother's service	day		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
3	is	present	three days			as one of your years; long property	tree rules
4	pay	future	mother	you	day		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset
5	service		mother				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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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