The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 83
‘The governor,’ said he, ‘desires you to give all that treasure you found into my care.’
Who acts: governor, you, my · What happens: say, desire, give, find, care · To what, where: you, treasure, care · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (governor, you, my), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 governor | det |
| 3 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 governor | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 governor | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 desires | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 desires | punct |
| 10 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 desires | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 desires | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 treasure | det:predet |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 treasure | det |
| 16 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 care | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 care | nmod:poss |
| 21 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the governor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | desire | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | all treasure | my care | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | you | all treasure not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | ||||
| 5 | care | my | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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