The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 7
And besides that, you must also bring as a present to the empress, my wife, as much gold as the three horses can carry.’
Who acts: you, three horses · What happens: bring, carry · To what, where: empress
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, three horses), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bring | cc |
| 2 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 bring | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 that | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 present | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 present | det |
| 11 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 empress | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 empress | det |
| 14 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wife | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 empress | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gold | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gold | amod |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 empress | conj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 carry | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 horses | det |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 horses | nummod |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 carry | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 carry | aux |
| 27 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 gold | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | must | you | the empress and my wife and much gold | besides that; as a present | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to empress=Destination | |||
| 2 | carry | can | the three horses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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