The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 34
But if you can bring me water from the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn, to bathe my eyes, then they will laugh for evermore; for I shall know that my sons are brave enough to overcome any foe.’
Who acts: you, enemies, I, sons · What happens: bring, bathe, laugh, know, be, overcome · To what, where: water, me, eyes, foe
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, enemies, I, sons), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 bathe | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bathe | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 spring | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spring | det |
| 10 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Fairy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fairy | det |
| 13 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spring | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Dawn | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dawn | det |
| 16 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fairy | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bathe | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bathe | mark |
| 19 | bathe | bathe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bathe | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 laugh | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 laugh | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 laugh | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 laugh | aux |
| 26 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bathe | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 evermore | case |
| 28 | evermore | evermore | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 laugh | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 know | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 know | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | aux |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bathe | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 brave | mark |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sons | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 brave | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 brave | cop |
| 38 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 know | advcl |
| 39 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 38 brave | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 overcome | mark |
| 41 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 brave | advcl |
| 42 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 foe | det |
| 43 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 overcome | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 bathe | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 bathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring a condition, not said to happen | can | you | water | me | spring | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination water=Theme | ||
| 2 | bathe | to-infinitive | my eyes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination | |||||
| 3 | laugh | future | enemies = enemy | then | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | know | shall | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | my sons | brave, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | overcome | to-infinitive | my sons not said here | any foe | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot foe=Theme |
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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