The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 57

‘Go, then,’ said his father, ‘and may you have better luck than they’; and he bade farewell to Petru, who rode straight to the borders of the kingdom.

Who acts: you, heads, Petru · What happens: go, say, have, ', bade, ride · To what, where: father, better luck, Petru, borders · 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 (you, heads, Petru), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 father	punct
11	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 luck	amod
17	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 ’	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ’	nsubj
20	’	'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bade	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bade	nsubj
24	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ;	conj
25	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	27 Petru	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Petru	case
27	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 bade	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rode	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 rode	nsubj
30	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Petru	acl:relcl
31	straight	straight	ADV	_	34 borders	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 borders	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 borders	det
34	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 rode	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 kingdom	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 kingdom	det
37	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 borders	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	infinitive					then	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		Petru's father				tree rules
3	have	may	you	better luck				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
4	'	present	heads = head					tree rules
5	bade		Petru		Petru			tree rules
6	ride	past	Petru			the borders of the kingdom		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to border=Trajectory

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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