The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 61
Bring me a flagon of it, and I will do anything to prove my gratitude.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring, do, prove · To what, where: flagon, me, anything, gratitude
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), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flagon | det |
| 4 | flagon | flagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flagon | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | parataxis |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 prove | mark |
| 14 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 anything | acl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prove | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | a flagon of flagon | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination flagon=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | future | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | prove | to-infinitive | I not said here | my gratitude | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme |
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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