The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 18

When you reach it, say to yourself, “Were there ever such lovely maidens! such angels! such fairy souls!”

Who acts: you · What happens: reach, say, be · To what, where: wreath, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reach	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 reach	nsubj
3	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reach	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reach	punct
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 yourself	case
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 say	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 there	punct
11	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 there	cop
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 say	ccomp
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 maidens	advmod
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maidens	amod
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 maidens	amod
16	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 there	parataxis
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 maidens	punct
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 angels	amod
19	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 maidens	conj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 maidens	punct
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 souls	amod
22	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 souls	compound
23	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 maidens	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reach	present	you	wreath			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: express	imperative	you not said here		yourself		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to yourself=Recipient
3	is in a quote	past				there property	tree rules

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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