The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 113
‘Now you shall have your reward,’ and she opened an iron chest, out of which she took a little box.
Who acts: you, friend, your · What happens: have, open, take, reward · To what, where: reward, iron chest, little box
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, friend, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 reward | nmod:poss |
| 7 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opened | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 chest | det |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chest | compound |
| 15 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 took | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 box | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 box | amod |
| 24 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | you | your reward | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient | |||
| 2 | open | past | friend | a iron chest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | friend | a little box | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent box=Theme out which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | reward | your | nom reward «event 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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