The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 44
‘Petru, my dear brother,’ at length said Florea, ‘would it not be better if we carried the water for you?
Who acts: Petru, length, we · What happens: say, not be, carry · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, length, we), 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 Petru | punct |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Petru | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | nmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Florea | Florea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 better | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 better | punct |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 better | aux |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 better | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 better | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 better | cop |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 said | parataxis |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 carried | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 better | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Petru | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | would | length | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry a condition, not said to happen | past | we | the water | for you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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