The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 4
‘Very well, my son, if you can win the princess you shall have her, and the conditions are these.
Who acts: you, conditions · What happens: win, have, be · To what, where: princess, these
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 (you, conditions), 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 | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 son | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 win | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 win | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 win | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 win | aux |
| 11 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 son | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 win | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 princess | acl:relcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 these | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 these | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 conditions | det |
| 21 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 these | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 these | cop |
| 23 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 son | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | can | you | the princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | you | princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the conditions | these | 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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