The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 43
‘Sweet be your life, for you have delivered me from enchantment,’ said the second Welwa, and they all journeyed on as before.
Who acts: second Welwa, flowers · What happens: be, deliver, say, journey on · To what, where: life, you, enchantment · 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 (second Welwa, flowers), 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 | 16 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 | _ | 13 enchantment | case |
| 13 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delivered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sweet | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sweet | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Welwa | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 Welwa | amod |
| 19 | Welwa | Welwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 journeyed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 journeyed | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 journeyed | nsubj |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 journeyed | advmod |
| 24 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 journeyed | compound:prt |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 before | case |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 journeyed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | the second Welwa not said here | your life | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deliver | present · perfect · passive | you | enchantment | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the second Welwa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | journey on | past | flowers = flower | all, before property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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