The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 2
You are about to enter the kingdom of Venus;(4) go and tell her, as a message from me, that I hope she will not tempt you to delay.
Who acts: You, 4, I, Venus · What happens: be, enter, go, tell, hope, not tempt · To what, where: kingdom, Venus, you · 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, 4, I, Venus), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 enter | mark |
| 5 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enter | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Venus | case |
| 9 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kingdom | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 4 | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 message | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 message | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 message | det |
| 21 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 message | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hope | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 hope | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 hope | nsubj |
| 27 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | advcl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 tempt | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 tempt | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 tempt | advmod |
| 31 | tempt | tempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hope | ccomp |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 tempt | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 delay | mark |
| 34 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 tempt | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | You not said here | the kingdom of Venus | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kingdom=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | 4 | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | 4 not said here | Venus | as a message from me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 5 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not tempt | future | Venus | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | delay | to-infinitive | Venus not said here | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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