The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 63

The kingdom is guarded on every side by wild beasts and horrible dragons; but I will tell you more about that, and I also have something to give you.’

Who acts: wild beasts, I · What happens: guard, tell, have, give · To what, where: kingdom, side, more, you, something · 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 (wild beasts, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kingdom	det
2	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guarded	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guarded	aux:pass
4	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 side	det
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guarded	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 beasts	case
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beasts	amod
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 guarded	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dragons	cc
12	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dragons	amod
13	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beasts	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guarded	parataxis
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 tell	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 more	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 have	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
26	also	also	ADV	_	27 have	advmod
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	parataxis
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 have	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 something	acl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	guard	present · passive	wild beasts and horrible dragons	the kingdom		every side	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
2	tell speech: assert	future	I	more	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Topic
3	have	present	I	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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