The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 58
If you wish to remain in this place, and feast your eyes on this gold, then stay till I call you.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wish, remain, feast, stay, call · To what, where: place, eyes, gold, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. 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), 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 | _ | 3 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feast | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 remain | mark |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remain | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feast | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feast | cc |
| 11 | feast | feast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feast | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 gold | det |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feast | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stay | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stay | advmod |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 feast | conj |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 call | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 call | nsubj |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 call | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 feast | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 feast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | this place | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 3 | feast | imperative | you not said here | your eyes | this gold | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | present | I | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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