The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 59

‘I will give you a task to perform, for you are brave, and will carry it through,’ continued Venus, when she had talked a long time, and both of them were getting sleepy.

Who acts: I, you, Venus, both · What happens: give, perform, be, carry, continue, talk · To what, where: task, you, Venus

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 (I, you, Venus, both), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 continued	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 task	det
7	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 perform	mark
9	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 task	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brave	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 brave	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 brave	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 brave	cop
14	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carry	cc
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	aux
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 brave	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carry	obj
20	through	through	ADV	_	18 carry	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
23	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 continued	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 talked	punct
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 talked	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 talked	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 talked	aux
29	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 Venus	acl:relcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 talked	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 getting	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 getting	cc
35	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	39 getting	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 both	nmod
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 getting	aux
39	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 continued	advcl
40	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 getting	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	a task	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient task=Theme
2	perform	to-infinitive	I not said here	a task not said here				vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you				brave property	tree rules
4	carry	future	you not said here	task			through property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	continue	past		Venus				tree rules
6	talk	past · perfect	Venus			time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	get	past · progressive	both				sleepy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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