The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 1
‘Stay for one moment, for I have a word of advice to give you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: stay, have, give, word · To what, where: word, you, advice
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 moment | nummod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stay | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 advice | case |
| 13 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 word | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 word | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | a word of advice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | a word of advice not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | word | advice | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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