The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 101
Dig your spurs in my body up to the rowel, draw your sword, and keep yourself ready, for we shall have to leap over both bridge and dragon.
Who acts: you, we, your · What happens: dig up, draw, keep, have, leap, spur · To what, where: spurs, body, sword, yourself, bridge
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, your), 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 | Dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dig | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 body | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 body | nmod:poss |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dig | obl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Dig | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 rowel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rowel | det |
| 10 | rowel | rowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dig | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 draw | punct |
| 12 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dig | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 draw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 keep | cc |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dig | conj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 keep | obj |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 keep | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 leap | mark |
| 26 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 have | xcomp |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 bridge | case |
| 28 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 bridge | det |
| 29 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leap | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dragon | cc |
| 31 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bridge | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | imperative | you not said here | your spurs | my body | to the rowel | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spur=Theme in body=Location | ||
| 2 | draw | infinitive | you not said here | your sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | ready property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | shall | we | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leap | to-infinitive | we not said here | both bridge and dragon | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | spur | your | nom spur «communication 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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