The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 135

If you are as successful with a little task which I shall give you to-morrow we shall consider the matter settled, and you shall marry the princess.’

Who acts: you, I, we, matter · What happens: be, give, consider, settle, marry · To what, where: little task, you, morrow, princess

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, we, matter), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 successful	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 successful	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 successful	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 successful	case
5	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 task	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 task	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 task	amod
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 successful	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 give	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 task	acl:relcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 morrow	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obl
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 consider	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 consider	aux
20	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 morrow	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 matter	det
22	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 settled	nsubj
23	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 consider	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 marry	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 marry	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 marry	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 marry	aux
28	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 successful	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 marry	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 successful	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 successful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			with a little task; successful property	tree rules
2	give	shall	I	a little task	you	to morrow	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Theme
3	consider	shall	we	morrow not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent morrow=Attribute clause=Theme
4	settle	past	the matter				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	marry	shall	you	the princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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