The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 32
As long as he is here you must take care that my table shall be served in a manner to surprise him constantly.
Who acts: prince, you, care · What happens: be, take, serve, surprise · To what, where: care, table, manner, prince
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 (prince, you, care), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:2434): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 6 here | mark |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 here | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 here | cop |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 take | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 served | mark |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 table | nmod:poss |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 served | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 served | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 served | aux:pass |
| 16 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 care | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 manner | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 manner | det |
| 19 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 served | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 surprise | mark |
| 21 | surprise | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 manner | acl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 surprise | obj |
| 23 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 21 surprise | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | prince | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | must | you | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 3 | serve | shall · passive | care not said here | my table | a manner | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in manner=Location | |||
| 4 | surprise | to-infinitive | care not said here | prince | constantly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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