The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 63

‘Beautiful,’ said the old woman; ‘very beautiful indeed; but they will go a very little way towards winning the princess, unless you can also perform the tasks that are set you.

Who acts: old woman, pearls, you · What happens: say, go, win, perform, set · To what, where: little way, princess, tasks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old woman, pearls, you), 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 Beautiful	punct
2	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Beautiful	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Beautiful	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 beautiful	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 beautiful	punct
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 beautiful	advmod
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 beautiful	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 way	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 little	advmod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl:unmarked
23	towards	towards	SCONJ	_	24 winning	mark
24	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 go	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 princess	det
26	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 winning	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 perform	punct
28	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	32 perform	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 perform	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 perform	aux
31	also	also	ADV	_	32 perform	advmod
32	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tasks	det
34	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 perform	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 set	nsubj:pass
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 set	aux:pass
37	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 tasks	acl:relcl
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 set	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go	future	pearls = pearl	a little way	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	win	gerund	pearls = pearl not said here	the princess	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
4	perform a condition, not said to happen	can	you	the tasks	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme
5	set	present · passive		the tasks	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination

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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