The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 31

‘Sweet be your life, for you have delivered me from my enchantment,’ said he, and began to rub his nose against his brother’s.

Who acts: Petru, my · What happens: be, deliver, say, begin, rub, enchant · To what, where: life, you, enchantment, nose · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Petru, my), 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 Sweet	punct
2	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 life	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sweet	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 delivered	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 delivered	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 delivered	nsubj:pass
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 delivered	aux
10	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Sweet	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 delivered	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 enchantment	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 enchantment	nmod:poss
14	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 delivered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sweet	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sweet	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rub	mark
23	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 nose	nmod:poss
25	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rub	obj
26	against	against	ADP	_	28 brother	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rub	obl
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 brother	case
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive	Petru not said here	your life			tree rules
2	deliver	present · perfect · passive		you	my enchantment		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Petru				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	Petru not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	rub	to-infinitive	Petru not said here	Petru's nose		against Petru's brother	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme against brother=Destination
6	enchant		my				nom enchantment «feeling 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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