The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 95
‘Name any dish you wish to have cooked, and give me the materials I ask for, and you shall see.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: name, wish, cook, give, ask, see · To what, where: dish, materials, me · 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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Name | punct |
| 2 | Name | name | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 dish | det |
| 4 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Name | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 wish | nsubj |
| 6 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dish | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cooked | mark |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cooked | aux |
| 9 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 wish | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Name | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 materials | det |
| 15 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | nsubj |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 materials | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ask | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Name | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Name | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | imperative | you not said here | any dish | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | you | any dish not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cook not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | you not said here | the materials | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient material=Theme | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | I | the materials not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent material=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | see | shall | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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