The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 50

‘Indeed,’ laughed the grand duke; ‘then I suppose you would have waited for the day of my death to treat me to it, for you have never sent it up to me yet.

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: laugh, suppose, wait, treat, not send up, die · To what, where: grand duke, me, death, you · 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, you, my), 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 laughed	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct
4	’	'	CCONJ	_	5 laughed	cc
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 duke	det
7	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 duke	amod
8	duke	duke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 suppose	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 suppose	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 suppose	nsubj
13	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 waited	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 waited	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 waited	aux
17	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 suppose	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 day	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waited	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 death	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 death	nmod:poss
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 treat	mark
25	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 waited	advcl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 treat	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 treat	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sent	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 sent	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 sent	nsubj:pass
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 sent	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 sent	advmod
34	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 waited	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sent	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 sent	compound:prt
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 sent	obl
39	yet	yet	ADV	_	34 sent	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past		the grand duke			indeed property	tree rules
2	suppose	present	I			then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	wait	would · perfect	you			day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	treat	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	death			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme to it=be'
5	not send up	present · perfect · passive		you	me	yet		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination it=Theme
6	die		my					nom death «event intransitive»: 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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