The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 10

So returning hastily to her own room, she wrote him a letter which she gave to a trusty servant to deliver, begging her wooer to come to her rooms early the next day, and to undertake nothing without her advice, if he ever wished her to be his wife.

Who acts: daughter, letter, man · What happens: return, write, give, deliver, beg, come · To what, where: man, trusty servant, wooer, rooms, nothing, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, letter, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 returning	advmod
2	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 wrote	advcl
3	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	7 room	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 room	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returning	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 returning	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrote	nsubj
10	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrote	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 letter	det
13	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrote	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 gave	nsubj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 letter	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 servant	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 servant	det
19	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 servant	amod
20	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 deliver	mark
22	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gave	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begging	punct
24	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 deliver	conj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wooer	nmod:poss
26	wooer	wooer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begging	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 come	mark
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 begging	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 rooms	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 rooms	nmod:poss
31	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 come	obl
32	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 day	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 day	det
34	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 day	amod
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 undertake	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 undertake	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	39 undertake	mark
39	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wrote	ccomp
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 undertake	obj
41	without	without	ADP	_	43 advice	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 advice	nmod:poss
43	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 undertake	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 wished	punct
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 wished	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 wished	nsubj
47	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	48 wished	advmod
48	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 undertake	conj
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 wished	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	53 wife	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 wife	cop
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 wife	nmod:poss
53	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 wished	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	gerund	daughter not said here					to daughter's own room result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result
2	write	past	daughter	man					tree rules
3	give	past	a letter		a trusty servant				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient
4	deliver	to-infinitive	a letter not said here						vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	beg speech: request	gerund	a letter not said here	daughter's wooer					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent wooer=Recipient
6	come	to-infinitive	a letter not said here			daughter's rooms	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
7	undertake	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	nothing				without daughter's advice	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
8	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	man	daughter			ever		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
9	is a	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's wife					tree rules

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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