The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 45
‘Come into the house,’ went on the goddess; ‘do not fear the dogs, they always know my will.’
Who acts: you, dogs · What happens: come, go, not fear, know · To what, where: house, dogs
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, dogs), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 goddess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goddess | det |
| 11 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 fear | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 fear | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fear | advmod |
| 16 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dogs | det |
| 18 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fear | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | advcl |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 will | nmod:poss |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | you not said here | on the goddess | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on goddess=Location | ||||
| 3 | not fear | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | the dogs | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know | present | dogs = dog | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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