The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 114

‘I owe you my life and my release,’ he said, ‘for without you I should never have regained my natural shape, and, indeed, would soon have been beheaded.

Who acts: I, Jem · What happens: owe, say, not regain, behead · To what, where: life, you, natural shape · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Jem), 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	_	3 owe	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 owe	nsubj
3	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 owe	obj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owe	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 release	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 release	nmod:poss
9	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 life	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 owe	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 owe	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 regained	punct
15	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	23 regained	cc
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 you	case
17	without	without	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 regained	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 regained	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 regained	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 regained	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 regained	aux
23	regained	regain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 shape	nmod:poss
25	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shape	amod
26	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 regained	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 beheaded	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 beheaded	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 and	punct
30	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	36 beheaded	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 indeed	punct
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 beheaded	aux
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 beheaded	advmod
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 beheaded	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 beheaded	aux:pass
36	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 regained	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	owe	present	I	my life and my release	you		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal life=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Jem				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not regain	should · perfect	I	my natural shape		for you	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
4	behead	would · perfect · passive	I not said here			indeed, soon property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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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