The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 119

‘Take me, for I am lovely, and can give strength to whoever plucks me,’ said one.

Who acts: I, whoever · What happens: take, be, give, pluck, say · To what, where: me, strength, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, whoever), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lovely	punct
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 lovely	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 lovely	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lovely	cop
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Take	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 give	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lovely	parataxis
13	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
14	to	to	SCONJ	_	16 plucks	mark
15	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 plucks	nsubj
16	plucks	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 plucks	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 said	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive			me		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	is	present	I			lovely property	tree rules
3	give	can		strength			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
4	pluck	present	whoever	me			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past		one			tree rules

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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