The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 130
‘If you will stay with me,’ said the grand duke, ‘you shall have fifty ducats a year, besides a new coat and a couple of pairs of trousers.
Who acts: you · What happens: stay, say, have, beside · To what, where: grand duke, fifty ducats, new coat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 stay | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 duke | det |
| 12 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 duke | amod |
| 13 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 19 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 ducats | nummod |
| 20 | ducats | ducat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 year | det |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ducats | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 besides | punct |
| 24 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 coat | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 coat | amod |
| 27 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 besides | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 couple | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 couple | det |
| 30 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 coat | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 pairs | case |
| 32 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 couple | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 trousers | case |
| 34 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pairs | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay a condition, not said to happen | future | you | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the grand duke | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | shall | you | fifty ducats a year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ducat=Patient | ||||
| 4 | beside | present | you not said here | a new coat and a couple of pairs of trousers | tree rules |
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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