The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 43
Let your boy carry them home for me and I’ll pay him for his trouble.’
Who acts: you, boy, I · What happens: let, carry, pay, trouble · To what, where: boy, cabbages
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 boy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 carry | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pay | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pay | aux |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 trouble | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | your boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | infinitive | your boy not said here | cabbages = cabbage | for me; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | pay | future | I | boy | for boy's trouble | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Asset for trouble=Theme | |||
| 4 | trouble | boy | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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