The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 19

Then hold the wreath high in the air and cry, “Oh! if I knew whether any one would accept this wreath from me... if I knew! if I knew!” and throw the wreath from you!’

Who acts: you, I, one · What happens: hold, cry, know, accept, throw · To what, where: wreath, air · 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, I, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 hold	advmod
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wreath	det
4	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wreath	amod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cry	cc
10	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 hold	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
13	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	17 knew	discourse
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Oh	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hold	parataxis
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 accept	mark
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 accept	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 accept	aux
22	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knew	ccomp
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 wreath	det
24	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 accept	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 accept	obl
27	...	...	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 knew	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 knew	nsubj
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hold	parataxis
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 knew	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 knew	nsubj
34	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hold	advcl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 throw	cc
38	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 hold	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wreath	det
40	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 throw	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 you	case
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 throw	obl
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	the wreath	the air	then		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	you not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	accept in a quote	would	any one	this wreath			from me	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme from i=Source
5	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	throw	infinitive	you not said here	the wreath			from you	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme from you=Initial_Location

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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